A study of 1,585 pregnant women during the COVID-19 era reveals that prenatal risk as defined by a multitude of maternal ...

Prenatal cannabis exposure following the middle of the first trimester—generally after five to six weeks of fetal development—is associated with attention, social, and behavioral problems that persist ...

A high-grade fever disrupts the body's equilibrium because it creates conditions which can harm foetal development by damaging brain and body cell growth.

A new report on child brain research has associated prenatal marijuana exposure with subsequent attention, behavioral and social problems in adolescent children; the risk rises significantly five or ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

HealthDay News — Prenatal methamphetamine exposure is linked to emotional and anxiety problems in 3-year-old children and an increased risk of attention-deficit ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

Brain development, especially before birth, is crucial to one’s mental health later in life. We know from previous research that disturbed development in the womb is linked to disorders such as autism ...