Autism genes activate during development of fetal brain
New research indicates that mutations that cause autism are connected to a pathway that regulates brain development....
read moreEarly nurturing hardwires infant’s brain
New research on newborn rats shows that the mother’s level of nurturing directly correlations to brain development....
read moreExercise during pregnancy helps newborn baby’s brain develop...
Mothers who exercised while pregnant had newborns (ages 8 to 12 days) with brains that had more mature cerebral activation. This suggests that the babies’ brains (of whose mothers exercised during pregnancy) developed more rapidly....
read moreAsparagine in meat, egg and dairy essential for brain development...
Although Asparagine is found in foods, which means it can provide an essential amino acid to most organs in the body, that’s not true for the brain because it Asparagine is not easily transported via the blood-brain barrier....
read moreBirth preps brain for development
Researchers in Japan recently discovered that the act of birth appears to decrease a certain brain chemical, thereby triggering sensory maps to prepare the baby to be able to survive outside its mother....
read moreScientists map autism-risk genes by function
Neuroscientists from UCLA have mapped groups of autism-risk genes by function. This will help determine when and where they affect early brain development....
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