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 ...

Children born to mothers infected with Covid-19 during pregnancy faced a 29% higher chance of developing autism, speech and ...

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 ...

Children born to mothers who had COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of developmental disorders by the time they ...

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

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 ...

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

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.