Columbia researchers have found that babies born to moms who had mild or asymptomatic COVID during pregnancy are normal, based on results from a comprehensive assessment of brain development. The ...

New Stanford research shows that hearing their mother’s voice helps premature babies strengthen language pathways in the ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could ...

The study shows prenatal air pollution exposure correlates with slower brain myelination in infants, emphasizing the need for ...

Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain ...

Scans of premature babies’ brains suggested that listening to their mothers’ recorded voices in hospital improved ...

Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. Researchers have now found possible targets for the early treatment of such damage outside the brain: Bacteria in the gut of premature ...

Infants exposed to Covid-19 in the womb were more likely to be diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders in the first year after delivery than those who weren’t, according to a study published ...

Racism is a public health crisis that affects the mental and physical well-being of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). But how far-reaching are these effects? Recent research reveals that ...