Taking antidepressants such as Prozac during pregnancy can affect the child's brain development and potentially lead to them having mental health disorders later in life, a new study warns. AFP via ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

The maternal microbiome and immune system have both independent and synergistic effects on fetal brain health—changes in the ...

New research using live mouse-adapted influenza virus improves upon previous mouse experiments to explain how maternal infection impacts fetal brain development. The study also indicates fetal brain ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, provides new evidence on the adverse effects of prenatal exposure to ethylene ...

It's a well-known fact that fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in children is caused by mothers who drink during pregnancy. But it turns out that the father's drinking habits could also affect a ...

As a fetus develops, its body is bathed in amniotic fluid: a warm, salty soup of nutrients, hormones, and antibodies produced by its mother. And into that fluid, a fetus is constantly sloughing off or ...

In a recent study published in the Nutrients journal, researchers assessed the impact of maternal obesity on brain development in the fetus. Study: Maternal Obesity and Gut Microbiota Are Associated ...