McGill University researchers at the Douglas Research Center have found evidence that heavy cannabis use during pregnancy can ...

From early prenatal development through childhood, the prefrontal cortex of the human brain undergoes a rush of developmental activity. In some cases, it also contains seeds of neuropsychiatric ...

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A new study of autism risk genes by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley scientists implicates disruption in prenatal neurogenesis - a process in which specialized "progenitor" cells give rise to new ...

Share on Pinterest Even occasionally using weed during the first trimester of pregnancy can negatively affect the development of a fetus. bymuratdeniz/Getty Images New research has shown that ...

Reading is an important part of a child’s development and parents are urged to get started early. By age five, 90-percent of a child’s brain is already developed, according to First 5 San Luis Obispo.

Vivette Glover has received recent funding from the Medical Resarch Council , the Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health, USA. If we want to understand child development, we need to ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...