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Autistic children had more complex, irregular brain-wave signals at rest than typically developing children in a 2026 EEG study of 186 kids aged 3 to 11 in Beijing.1 The gap was widest in pr…
Read articleA 2026 Nature Communications mouse study tested 7,736 possible connections in the hippocampal CA3 memory circuit and found a developmental shift from dense early wiring toward sparse structu…
Read articleA 2026 rat study found that 21 days of late-adolescent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) exposure produced adult anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze and weaker novel object recognition …
Read articleParents naturally want to do everything they can to optimize brain development in their children. The first years of life are a critical window when nutrition lays the foundation for lifelon…
Read articleNootropics or “smart drugs” tend to improve cognitive function to help people perform better, maximize productivity, and ultimately achieve their full potential. Most nootropics are regarded…
Read articleIt is widely debated as to which age the brain is considered “fully mature” or developed. In the past, many experts believed that the brain may have been done developing in the mid to late t…
Read articleMany prospective mothers have been guilty of smoking marijuana while pregnant – that’s a fact. The majority of those mothers probably didn’t realize that by smoking marijuana, they could aff…
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