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When Does Your Baby Develop a Brain?

Your baby’s brain continues to develop in the coming weeks, endowing him with a remarkable range of involuntary movements like stretching, yawning, and sucking by the end of the first trimester and ...
Researchers have uncovered genetic elements that drive the rapid development of marsupials' facial features.
A routine check-up with a maternal health nurse after her birthday raised concerns about the circumference of her head. “Her ...
What the study found was that a small increase in exposure resulted in quite a big difference. This post appeared first in ...
Maternal stress, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological distress, remains a widespread yet underestimated risk ...
National Dairy Council reports that iodine is crucial for brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life, yet ...
When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as ...
Brain research can provide valuable information about children who may need extra support before they start struggling with reading in the classroom.
The microbes that take hold in our bodies during early life have long-term effects on our brain health. Helen Thomson ...