A new study shows that what happens to a fetus in the womb can affect the brain later in life. In a paper recently published in Human Brain Mapping, a team of researchers from the Quebec-based ...

Fetal growth restriction may affect babies' heart rate, pain response, brain structure, growth and early development long ...

Climate disasters may be leaving invisible imprints on developing brains before birth, according to new research from The City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY Graduate Center) and Queens ...

There is a growing awareness of the importance of early brain maturation on health later in life as the underlying complex, interconnected structural and functional processes can be altered by various ...

Pregnancy comes with countless concerns for expectant mothers, from morning sickness to delivery plans. Now, alarming new research adds another worry to the list: how blood sugar problems during ...

Immune cells in the human brain may be critical to orchestrating the organ's development in the womb because they trigger a dramatic increase in an important type of nerve cell, new research suggests.

This illustration shows that male animals exposed to THC in the womb experience a greater surge in the “reward-seeking” brain chemical dopamine when exposed to opioid drugs as adolescents compared to ...