A new study has failed to find any strong links between drinking coffee during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental difficulties in children. A University of Queensland-led study has failed to find any ...

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 ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age 2 showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower decision-making and increased anxiety by their teenage years, according to ...

Our babies’ brains, from zero to three years old, are developing rapidly and are dramatically shaped by relationships. Babies make an astounding one million connections per second in their brain, and ...

How does a tiny group of cells know how to grow into a perfectly organised human body? The answer lies in genetics. During week 3 of pregnancy, your baby’s DNA begins actively directing cell division, ...