The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's brain develops, with effects that last well beyond childhood. But families ...

Bedside OCT in preterm infants links retinal thickness to motor, cognition, and autism risk at age 2, hinting at earlier ...

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In a comprehensive Genomic Press research article, scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ...

Non-invasive neuroimaging has transformed understanding of brain maturation during the earliest months of life. Structural MRI reveals rapid growth and differentiation of grey and white matter, while ...

A new study shows that whether families can reliably meet basic needs, not just how much they earn, may shape infants’ brain development as early as the first year of life. Study: Income insufficiency ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

Optimism in ophthalmology. The post Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research ...

Previous studies have shown that high fructose intake while pregnant raises the risk of gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, ...