The specialist explains how the environment during pregnancy influences how a baby’s brain prepares to enter the world.

An overview of how medical imaging and testing can help doctors detect certain brain development conditions before birth ...

Millions of women go through pregnancy every year, yet science has only just begun to look at what it does to the brain—the ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides a detailed model of how the human brain develops during the transition from the womb to early infancy. The findings indicate that distinct growth ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A small study that examined brains from children who died found abnormal patterns of cell growth in autistic children. The research bolsters evidence that something before birth might cause autism, at ...

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...