New research has made a striking link between a mother’s exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy and the shape of her child’s brain at age five. The findings offer no conclusion as to whether ...

Our bodies are colonized by a teeming, ever-changing mass of microbes that help power countless biological processes. Now, a new study has identified how these microorganisms get to work shaping the ...

Millions of women go through pregnancy every year, yet science has only just begun to look at what it does to the brain—the ...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School is completing the first phase of data collection for a longitudinal study of the baby's developing social brain. Subscribe to our ...

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During the postpartum period, new mothers' brains are working hard to support caregiving. The endocrine system is working after the abrupt decline of pregnancy hormones, and the immune system is ...