(CN) — Brain charts could allow doctors to compare the size and relative function of individual sections of a person’s brain with those of their peers across every age group, providing clinicians a ...

The findings, published through an open source website called Brain Chart, offer the first set of reference charts tracking structural brain changes over a human lifespan. And the scale of dataset has ...

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan -- from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult -- that show how our brains expand rapidly in ...

Share on Pinterest New research brings together the MRI brain scans of over 100,000 people and uses them to chart brain changes across the human lifespan. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images A lack of ...

One of the most consequential evolutionary truths of our species is the dramatic increase in the size of our brains. Our closest animal relative had no such brain boom. So what gives? And what does ...

Researchers have identified thousands of genes linked to brain structure that shine a light on how our genetic makeup shapes the development of the brain, according to research published in Nature ...

IF A DOCTOR wants to know how well a child is growing, she can turn to clinically validated charts that lay out precisely how that child compares to the norm for their age and sex. Not only can the ...

Human evolution has been a focal discipline since the origins of science itself. Of particular interest is the questions on how and why the human body and brain have evolved to become what they are ...