developmental-neuroscience

Infant hippocampal activity predicted picture recognition about a minute later, narrowing encoding-failure accounts of infantile amnesia without proving that early memories survive into adulthood.

IntroductionInhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitter levels are linked to fast neuronal oscillations and infra-slow hemodynamic fluctuations, suggesting a shared excitation–inhibition (E/I) regulatory framework across measures. However, these relationships may differ in early development, when both excitatory and inhibitory cortical systems are undergoing substantial functional and structural m…

Scientists have discovered that astrocytes use stress hormones to lock in neural connections during early brain development. This breakthrough helps explain how critical periods of learning close and how early life stress might alter brain maturation.

_Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ (LXI). 2026Monoamine transporters are critical regulators of neurotransmission during early brain development. The dopamine transporter (DAT), encoded by SLC6A3, and the serotonin transporter (SERT), encoded by SLC6A4, modulate extracellular monoamine levels via sodium-and chloride-dependent reuptake. This study integrates developmental neuroscien…

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) should be considered as a multifaceted neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by extensive cerebral structural, functional, and connectivity patterns. DCD is commonly associated with other developmental conditions, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), learning disabilities (LD), speech-language dela…

A strange mouse study suggests that the brain isn't a 'blank slate' at birth, waiting...

Understanding how large-scale functional networks mature across development is essential for linking brain organization to cognition and behavior. Thus, the population-level organization of functional networks in children and how it compares to adult network architecture deserves further study. Using resting-state fMRI data from 7,316 children aged 9–10 years in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Dev…

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete. Adolescence is when the brain’s “control center” keeps coming online. As teens move toward adulthood, skills like planning ahead, weighing consequences, and solving unfamiliar problems [...]

Researchers from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Queens College suggest that building strong adaptive skills in early childhood may serve as a buffer against the detrimental effects of prenatal stress on a child's developing brain.

Scientists have made a major advance in developmental neuroscience, creating the very first detailed atlas of how the vascular network of a mouse's brain grows after birth. Their study is published in Cell.

Editorial Accepted on 03 Apr 2026 Editorial: Neurodevelopment: parental influences, in utero exposures, and genetics, volume II in Neurodevelopment Editorial Accepted on 03 Apr 2026 in Neurodevelopment Original Research Published on 01 Apr 2026 in Neurodevelopment Mini Review Accepted on 31 Mar 2026 in Neurodevelopment Original Research Accepted on 31 Mar 2026 in Neurodevelopment Original Researc…

A single query—Can your income meet your family’s basic needs?—appears to capture something profound about infant brain development. Researchers measuring electrical brain activity in babies during their first year of life found that caregivers who answered “never” or “rarely” to that question had infants whose brains showed slower maturation patterns, even when other risk factors were accounted …

We are now calling for the 10th Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. The Award recipient will be recognized at the annual meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society. The application deadline is on January 31st, 2026 – click here for more information. We look forward to receiving many applications. The post Call for the Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, 2026 appeared …

We are pleased to announce a fully-funded 3-year PhD position in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Music at the Brainlab – Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), starting in January 2026. We are seeking a enthusiastic candidate with a strong motivation for research and openness to international training opportunities. The candidate [...] The post Fully…

The Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), an IBRO society member, is calling for nominations for the 2024 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. Named after Dr. Joseph Altman, the discoverer of neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain, the award was established with a fund donated to the JNS by Dr. Shirley A. Bayer, a widow and […] The post Call for nominations for the 2024 Joseph Altman…

Laia Fibla and John Spencer discuss their paper, " Language exposure and brain myelination in early development ", published in Vol. 43, Issue 23 of JNeurosci, with Reviewing Editor Elana Zion-Golumbic. Find our upcoming webinar schedule here . With special guests: Laia Fibla and John Spencer On Neuro Current, we delve into the stories and conversations surrounding research published in the journ…

The Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), an IBRO society member, is calling for nominations for the 2023 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. Named after Dr. Joseph Altman, who discovered neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain, the award was established with a fund donated to the JNS by Dr. Shirley A. Bayer, a widow and long-term […] The post Call for nominations for the 2023 Joseph…

Learning to navigate social relationships is a skill that is critical for surviving in human societies. For babies and young children, that means learning who they can count on to take care of them. MIT neuroscientists have now identified a specific signal that young children and even babies use to determine whether two people have […] The post Babies can tell who has close relationships based on…

We can’t measure the brain activity of a human foetus – not whilst they’re inside their mother. But we’re really interested. What happens to a baby’s brain as it’s developing, and what does this tell us about our own and the developing process of sleep? EEG (electroencephalogram) reading via Wikipedia Commons . Researchers into brain activity have performed EEG (electroencephogram) exams on prema…