CHICAGO - Experts at Northwestern University unveiled a new tool to help track the cognitive, language, motor skills, and ...

A new study published in Developmental Science provides evidence that household income instability during pregnancy may be ...

Higher vitamin D levels in early pregnancy may boost children’s cognitive development. A recent study from the Environmental ...

August 01, 2025 About a third of pregnant women in the U.S. lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies New research suggests the nutrient plays a role in brain development beginning ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development ...

Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the ...

“The nutrient choline is essential for fetal brain development and severely under-consumed by pregnant women,” says Inchauspé. The National Library of Medicine confirms this fact, adding that the ...