Fetal growth restriction may affect babies' heart rate, pain response, brain structure, growth and early development long ...

Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, revealed the key stages of vascular development in the brain, from birth through ...

Newborn brain scans reveal how autism-related genetic variants influence early neural wiring, offering fresh insights into the origins of neurodevelopmental differences. Research: Autism common ...

Study: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Image credit: Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to ...

Brain-imaging data collected from fetuses and infants has revealed a rapid surge in functional connectivity between brain regions on a global scale at birth, possibly reflecting neural processes that ...

At birth, the brain is far from fully developed. Neural connections are formed at a rapid pace during the first weeks of life, and blood vessels—which supply oxygen and nutrients to nerve cells—follow ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

A pregnant mouse whose gut bacteria have been wiped out gives birth to pups with measurably weaker nerve connections between ...