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

National Dairy Council reports that iodine is crucial for brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life, yet ...

A large study from Massachusetts found that babies whose mothers had COVID-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to ...

Pregnancy is one of the three Ps (puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause), a time when a person's brain undergoes physical changes due to hormones. - d3sign/Moment RF/Getty Images/File Science has ...

Confused about pregnancy vitamins? Dr Megan Rossi shares what's really essential for you and your baby – and the supplements you don't need.

A Texas A&M study shows alcohol during pregnancy damages brain cells vital for learning and self-control, raising addiction risk.

Luby is an infant/preschool psychiatrist clinician researcher at Washington University School of Medicine. Barch is a clinical scientist researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. The New York ...

Preterm infants born before 32 weeks who received more skin-to-skin contact while in the hospital showed stronger brain development in areas tied to emotion and stress regulation than babies who ...

Mothers who had COVID during pregnancy are more likely to have children with developmental disorders, including autism, by ...

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