Talk:Human brain development timeline

'Article for Deletion' Candidate
Before I propose this article for deletion, I would like to provide the authors of this article an opportunity to address these concerns (which are basically my reasons for   nomination)...


 * 1) This page is a WP:SS extension from a subsection (Human brain development) in the article Neural development in humans, which is itself a WP:SS extension of Neural development. Given that the subsection Neural development in humans is blank (merely contains 1 image), I believe we should seriously consider WP:AVOIDSPLIT.
 * 2) Readers are being directed here expecting a timeline (e.g. a timeline) on Human brain development, similar to that shown in the Mouse brain development timeline page. Instead, this page opens with a statement about brain imaging...
 * 3) If you hadn't already read the title, you'd think this article was primarily about brain imaging techniques; there is no need to explain those techniques in detail here - they already have high quality wiki pages and plenty of coverage.
 * 4) Further (aside from being superfluous and off-topic), since this page dedicates the bulk of its content to brain imaging, one would expect that brain imaging techniques are the predominate method used to study early human brain development. However, I glean they are hardly used whatsoever to study prenatal brain development. The article currently states that: "Neuroimaging is responsible for great advancements in understand how the brain develops. EEG and ERP are effective imaging processes used mainly on babies and young children since they are more gentle." Neither EEG nor ERP are considered brain imaging techniques.

For those who have made efforts contributing to this page, please consider migrating relevant info to Neural development in humans. - Niubrad (talk) 03:27, 17 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The article was created in 2007, and basically started as the sort of thing you suggest it should be. It was extensively edited in 2012, adding a bunch of material that, as you say, really doesn't belong.  Anyway, I think the actions you are proposing make sense. Looie496 (talk) 11:32, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree with both your views and thanks for pointing this out, . As you state, I agree we should: (1) strip unnecessary explanations of imaging from this article; and (2) I have proposed a move to "Development of the human brain" which this article actual describes below. I've proposed a similar move for Neural development in humans which in fact describes Development of the nervous system. @ in the future please also feel free in the future to comment on any other articles at WikiProject Anatomy. --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:14, 19 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you both and  (Tom) for your analysis and feedback. I will go ahead and "strip unnecessary explanations of imaging from the article", and format to match Mouse brain development timeline with regard to content/layout. Tom I support your ideas to perform a move/merge. To me, it makes sense for the drill-down to go...
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 * Neural development ↴ Neural development in humans ↴    Neural development in humans (timeline)
 * }
 * Where Neural development in humans (timeline) is this article (renamed from Human brain development timeline). Anyway, I will salvage what I can from this article and place add it to Neural development in humans - how does that sound? Oh and @Tom (LT), thanks for inviting me to check out WP:ANAT; I certainly will. Cheers — Niubrad (talk) 05:28, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Where Neural development in humans (timeline) is this article (renamed from Human brain development timeline). Anyway, I will salvage what I can from this article and place add it to Neural development in humans - how does that sound? Oh and @Tom (LT), thanks for inviting me to check out WP:ANAT; I certainly will. Cheers — Niubrad (talk) 05:28, 20 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Ok, Tom (LT), I just saw your proposal notes about this on WP:ANAT... First, I think your idea to be consistent with the other "Development of..." articles is good - I'm all for that. As it is however, I just don't think there's curretnly enough content to warrent separate articles for Development of the nervous system in humans and Development of the human brain. To reiterate (from above): the subsection Neural development in humans is blank. — Niubrad (talk) 06:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Should this article be merged into Development of the nervous system in humans then? (Niubrad, User:LT910001). At present it would fit will; probably they should not be merged only if someone thinks they can, sometime in the next few years, add material so copious that it would make the latter article too long or too lopsided. At present this page looks like an article fragment.
 * Looking back through the article history I see that Niubrad moved a lot of material in 2015 but I'm not sure where it got moved to. It seems like it would belong here or at Development of the nervous system in humans. Regards, groupuscule (talk) 13:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 19 September 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 15:51, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Human brain development timeline → Development of the human brain – Move to a title that describes the actual scope of this article, and is consistent with other "Development of..." articles. Tom (LT) (talk) 07:18, 19 September 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, as long as there is a good, descriptive redirect beginning with Human brain... and/or Brain.... --Hordaland (talk) 14:46, 19 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Wrong title
This page ought to go back to Human brain development timeline. It is just that, and not an article on the development of the human brain. The move of material to Development of the nervous system in humans is also i suggest a wrong move. Think it would be an improvement to move (as suggested by merge tag on page) to just development of the nervous sytem and possibly split the moved content to its own page of Human brain development where it could be properly expanded.--Iztwoz (talk) 10:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC) Or section in Development of the nervous system with Main article at Human brain#Development. ? --Iztwoz (talk) 12:15, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

"full maturity" myth
List of common misconceptions has an entry for "The human brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex, does not reach "full maturity" at any particular age (e.g. 18, 21, or 25 years of age).". There should be a section in this article about this myth. Mateussf (talk) 14:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The source cited for age 25 only mentioned it in passing, referencing another paper which says absolutely nothing about brain development. I rephrased the Childhood and adolescence section's 2nd paragraph to better address this topic. Someone had already added a reference to a Slate article which covered it pretty well. I just (hopefully) better summarized its key point. —mjb (talk) 21:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC)