In the new study, co-author Laura Pritschet, a PhD student, and her team determined that along with a rise in estrogen and ...

Widespread cortical gray matter volume change occurred in step with advancing gestational week. Darker colors indicate ...

Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. First up we’ve got an update on Butch Wilmore ...

Some of the changes continued past pregnancy. “Previous studies had taken snapshots of the brain before and after pregnancy, but we’ve never witnessed the brain in the midst of this ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field. Certain brain ...

Liz Chrastil, a neuroscientist at UC Irvine, opted to have her brain scanned every few weeks during her entire pregnancy to ...

By examining DNA samples at different ages, the researchers found consistent patterns of altered gene activity in those exposed to cannabis prenatally. “We know cannabis use during pregnancy is ...

Higher exposure to pollutants like silicon in fine particles (PM2.5) during pregnancy was associated with initially higher ...

Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she ...