And so adolescent remodeling with its pruning that creates a more differentiated brain and its myelination that links those differentiated regions is really all about creating more integration.

Over a longer period of time, the researchers monitored how adaptable the adolescents' brains were to psychosocial risk factors.To do this, the participants underwent two MRI scans, each one to ...

One of the outstanding questions in neurodevelopment research has been identifying how connections in the brain change to improve neural function during childhood and adolescence. Now, results ...

The myelination of axons by glial cells was the last major step in the evolution of cells in the vertebrate nervous system, and white-matter tracts are key to the architecture of the mammalian brain.

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may influence development of the brain in a way that alters the recognition of risks, ... Myelination facilitates signal transfer between cells, ...

For adolescents, this means that the pruning down of existing neurons and the laying down of myelin sheaths connecting the remaining linked neurons will continue years after we stop referring to ...