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 ...

Children's National Hospital and partnering academic centers have found that newborns exposed to opioids in utero exhibited smaller brain volumes in multiple regions compared to unexposed infants.

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 ...

LAWRENCE — A researcher from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute is part of an international group that recently published a comprehensive review of differences in sensory processing for ...

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. During the study, which is publishing ...

Air pollution significantly affects pregnant women and their unborn babies, increasing risks of low birth weight, premature birth, and respiratory illnesses.