From conception to age two, a baby’s brain grows faster than at any other stage in life. In the womb, brain cells multiply rapidly, forming the connections that later control movement, thought, and ...

Your baby's brain is one of the first major organs to start developing – just three weeks in. And here's the wild part: It'll keep growing all the way into their 20s. The brain and spinal cord team up ...

India, July 17 -- Discover how a baby's brain prepares for hearing before birth, paving the way for language learning and addressing auditory disorders.

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School is completing the first phase of data collection for a longitudinal study of the baby's developing social brain. Using functional ...

A study in mice has found that the bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in the mother's gut during pregnancy supports healthy brain development in the fetus. A study in mice has found that the bacteria ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may influence brain development and behavioral health more than a decade later ...