University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

and developmental stage. Over the past several decades, the age of puberty has been dropping for many young people, bringing an increasingly early end to childhood. Both genetic and environmental ...

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood ... indicates that the brain keeps growing until mid to late childhood, then decreases through the early 20s ...