Pregnant women are especially vulnerable to heat because pregnancy makes it harder to regulate body temperature.

Randomized maternal fish oil supplementation from pregnancy week 24 lowered offspring cerebral blood flow and oxygen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Djavan Rodriguez/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Up until the 1970s or so, the human brain was assumed to be 'hardwired' like a ...

Climate change could be increasing risks to children's brain development. A new study finds that exposure to higher temperatures during pregnancy could spur neurological changes in infancy and beyond.

A maternal-fetal medicine expert told Newsweek the findings warrant study, but pregnant women shouldn't stop medications.

You walk into the kitchen and forget why you're there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence. If you've recently had a ...

Jenney Bitner was pregnant with her fourth child when she received the devastating diagnosis ...

New research suggests the changes associated with parenthood may reflect adaptation, not decline. The brain changes associated with parenthood may not be driven by pregnancy alone. Researchers are ...

In obese pregnant rats, chia seed enrichment helped shift omega-3 metabolism, increasing DHA availability in maternal tissues, placenta, and fetal brain lipid profiles during a critical developmental ...