New research using live mouse-adapted influenza virus improves upon previous mouse experiments to explain how maternal infection impacts fetal brain development. The study also indicates fetal brain ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant mice leads to a breakdown in placental and brain barriers, leading to the ...

Having one traumatic experience is bad enough. If you've constantly experienced stress since before birth, you may be in for an especially tough time. Our emotions may be influenced by infections ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Adrienne Antonson (left) and Rafael Gonzalez-Rincon show, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant mice leads to a breakdown in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. New research has discovered an unexpected way pregnancy alters the brain—by changing a mother's temperature preferences.

Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montreal have, for the first time, ...

Prenatal exposure to a mother's stress contributes to anxiety and cognitive problems that persist into adulthood, a phenomenon that could be explained by lasting - and potentially damaging - changes ...