A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

A University of Utah study reported high ozone levels can harm fetal brain development in places with heavy oil drilling and production, including Utah's Wasatch Front and Uinta Basin and Colorado's ...

WOMEN experience unique changes in grey matter volume, white matter tracts, and functional neural network organisation after ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck around ...

DENVER, April 22, 2022 – A new study reports that selective impairments in regional fetal brain growth predict adverse cognitive, language and motor outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease.

Left amygdalar volumes were smaller in newborns whose mothers had high psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small cross-sectional study suggested. Infants of mothers with elevated ...

Findings suggest prenatal sleep quality as a key factor influencing infant brain and emotional outcomes. Study: Association between prenatal maternal sleep quality, neonatal uncinate fasciculus white ...