The study shows prenatal air pollution exposure correlates with slower brain myelination in infants, emphasizing the need for ...
The researchers suspected the pathway—known as the social perception pathway—might be functional very early in development.
Comedian MC Mbakara and wife, Lolo Mbakara, have opened up about their daughter Eke Mama’s nine-year struggle with severe ...
Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.
“This is the first causal evidence that a speech experience is contributing to brain development at this very young age,” ...
Organophosphates are neurotoxicants that can lead to muscle spasms, confusion, seizures and even — in extreme cases — death, ...
Hearing the sound of their mother’s voice promotes the development of language pathways in the brains of tots born at least ...
Paying less attention to faces is one of the key markers of autism spectrum disorder. But while researchers have begun to uncover the brain network that supports processing of social stimuli such as ...
WESTWEGO, La. — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For years, ...
In New Hampshire, a mom is busily crocheting hundreds of baby blankets for Virginia newborns enrolled in the nation’s largest long-term study of early brain and child development. This New Hampshirite ...
Contraception is often used to prevent pregnancies and manage menstrual cycles—which is exactly why Sandra Somarakis, now 61, and Nicole Ryan, 60, chose it for over a decade. Both women opted for ...
Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.