Fractal analysis of brain shape formation predicts age and genetic similarity in human newborns

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, December 29, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02107-wFractal analysis of structural MRI captures the formation of brain shape in human newborns and outperforms other morphological measures in predicting infant age and genetic...

Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, December 29, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02144-5Liu et al. report Chinese normative lifespan brain charts showing later neurodevelopmental milestones than those detected in Western cohorts. Individual deviations from these norms...

Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Monday, December 29, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02159-yBergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping our...

Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, December 24, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02186-9Psychedelic science is growing rapidly and offers great promise for exciting new therapies, but this rapid growth has brought growing pains. These include a lack of appreciation of...

Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, December 23, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02152-5Benoit, Ganea et al. show that changes in axon initial segment (AIS) length in the prefrontal cortex of mice accompany fear learning and extinction, revealing AIS plasticity as a...

Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Tuesday, December 23, 2025 | Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02166-zParcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas in...