Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

Chemicals leaching from everyday plastic objects may affect your child’s behaviour, study finds - Researchers say exposure ...

Researchers say exposure during pregnancy has ‘important potential connections’ to behaviour differences in young children ...

Breastfeeding mothers can feel reassured by new research that has found that taking antidepressant treatment does not negatively impact their baby's brain development.

The first few years of a child's life are at a stage of great brain plasticity and neurodevelopment, and form the foundation ...

Brain development during the initial years is critical, shaped by both environment and caregiver behaviors. To clarify the ...

Maternal stress, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological distress, remains a widespread yet underestimated risk during pregnancy. Previous research has linked stress to increased cortisol ...

Preemies who listened to voice recordings from their moms had more maturation in key language regions of the brain Fetuses are capable of eavesdropping on mom’s conversations late in pregnancy ...