A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...

A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

Prenatal estrogen brain development research: two studies in Early Human Development find that first-trimester maternal ...

Now, in this study, the researchers injected pregnant ewes with 200 mg of progesterone, twice a week, from day 20 to 75 (equivalent to 15 weeks of pregnancy in humans) and found that, in male fetuses, ...

Exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy and early infancy is associated with slower growth of the thalamus later in ...

In a study led by researchers from Mass General Brigham, children with more adverse prenatal exposures (APEs) showed higher rates of behavior problems that persisted into mid-adolescence, faster ...

Editor's Note: The story has been updated with additional commentary. Higher prenatal exposure to a common pesticide, chlorpyrifos (CPF), was associated with a greater likelihood of brain ...