The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

Scientists uncover new synapse hotspots in the teen brain, challenging the old theory of synaptic pruning and its link to schizophrenia.

An abstract image representing shared mechanisms. Two silhouettes are featured back-to-back with joint cog wheels in bright colors across their heads, representing the shared synaptic mechanism. A ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...