Environmental factors like stress and medication exposure during pregnancy can shape brain development, but the mechanisms ...

Genetic variants linked to autism are associated with structural differences in neonatal white matter, particularly increased ...

Preterm birth is a major public health challenge ... To enhance our understanding of the normal sequence of brain development in the immature ferret, we aimed to characterize postnatal ...

The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

Stress hormones, often prescribed before premature delivery, affect the brain development of the embryo Infections, chemicals ...

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones, the ...

Even before they're born, your baby's brain is busy making connections. Literally, the neurones or nerve cells are making new links with each other all the time. A newborn baby has about fifty ...

and others have been exploring the roll of attachment and brain development for many years and explain that the amygdala is in a critical period of maturation in the first 2 months after birth.