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Source: National Marine Sanctuaries, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In a new study, researchers from the University of Queensland used advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

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Few things are as frightening for a parent as hearing that their child has a brain tumor. Names like medulloblastoma and ependymoma are overwhelming on their own. But for some families, the diagnosis ...