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 ...

In the evolving landscape of maternal health research, a new study from Texas A&M University provides critical insight into ...

Children born to mothers who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy face a 29% higher likelihood of developmental disorders by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists grew organoids, or tiny models of the brain, to learn more about how the organ forms ...

Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

What the study found was that a small increase in exposure resulted in quite a big difference. This post appeared first in ...

The symptoms of autism may not be obvious until a child is a toddler, but the disorder itself appears to begin well before birth. Brain tissue taken from children who died and also happened to have ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study.