Accumulating data from epidemiology, genetics, epigenetics, basic neuroscience, and neuroimaging point to neurodevelopment as a time for establishing risk and resilience to later neuropsychiatric ...
Researchers are still trying to discern whether a COVID-19 infection during pregnancy can lead to long-term problems for the child. Some studies find no difference between babies born to mothers ...
Enterovirus 71 is a common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease and encephalitis in Asia and elsewhere. The long-term neurologic and psychiatric effects of this viral infection on the central ...
Huda Zoghbi is a clinician-scientist who studies the molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering the genetic ...
In a recent study published in the journal Neuropharmacology, researchers in Pisa, Italy, explored how gut microbiota can influence neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the ability of neuronal circuits ...
A process as intricate as brain development requires precisely controlled expression of crucial genes, but it’s the different flavors of a protein, or isoforms, that the genes encode that do the heavy ...
Paris: Neurogenesis, or the development of neural cells from stem cells, begins in the foetus at 5 weeks gestation and is nearly complete by 28 weeks. It is a complicated process with intricate ...
In a Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alex Tsompanidis highlights an exciting new idea that positions the placenta at the center of human neurodevelopment and evolution, ...
About The Study: The results of this study including 2,261 and 1,940 infants ages 12 and 18 months, respectively, suggest that COVID-19 vaccination was safe during pregnancy from the perspective of ...
In peer-reviewed research of 51,000 pregnant women, Ben-Gurion University scientists find that if hormone imbalance is ...
Children may be more likely to be diagnosed with autism and other neurodevelopment disorders if their mother had a Covid-19 infection while pregnant, according to a new study. Researchers from ...