*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

The size of a language-related brain region measured before a baby is born is linked to how many words that child can say at ...

Jeff Carroll is part of a new effort to accelerate the development of targeted cures for a handful of neurodegenerative ...

Cambridge researchers created miniature brain-and-spinal-cord systems in the lab that can send signals and even trigger tiny ...

Research in mice reveals a new way that brain plasticity is controlled — providing a long-awaited insight into how critical ...

Doctors at Children’s National Hospital in D.C. will talk about projects used to champion under-resourced women and children Drawing on leading research in fetal and neonatal neuroscience, the ...

“Baby brain” isn’t the deficit it’s stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime soon-to-be-moms to become more attuned to their children and enhance social ...

When UCSF performed its first fetal MRI in 1996, the technology was still largely experimental. Nearly three decades later, fetal MRI has become a vital clinical and research tool. UCSF is now among ...

What if surgeons could repair a birth defect before a baby is even born? For some families facing a diagnosis of spina bifida, that possibility is now real thanks to advances in fetal surgery. Spina ...

Morgan Firestein, a core member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute and resident scientist at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, is leading an innovative search for a prenatal genesis of ...