April 30, 2012 (Florence, Italy) — Extensive loss of gray matter during adolescence and abnormal development of white matter could contribute to the onset of schizophrenia, according to midpoint ...

—These investigators are believed to be the first to evaluate the association between white matter free water and cognitive performance. According to the investigators of a newly published study ...

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 ...

Pregnancy physically reshapes the brain, temporarily stripping away gray matter in a process that researchers now believe may fine-tune neural circuits for parenthood. A growing body of MRI-based ...