Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair. The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice ...

There's lots of evidence out there that mothers' brains change and adapt during pregnancy and after childbirth. Now recent studies show that something similar happens in fathers' brains after they've ...

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