Enterovirus 71 is a common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease and encephalitis in Asia and elsewhere. The long-term neurologic and psychiatric effects of this viral infection on the central ...

Huda Zoghbi is a clinician-scientist who studies the molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering the genetic ...

In a recent study published in the journal Neuropharmacology, researchers in Pisa, Italy, explored how gut microbiota can influence neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the ability of neuronal circuits ...

A process as intricate as brain development requires precisely controlled expression of crucial genes, but it’s the different flavors of a protein, or isoforms, that the genes encode that do the heavy ...

Paris: Neurogenesis, or the development of neural cells from stem cells, begins in the foetus at 5 weeks gestation and is nearly complete by 28 weeks. It is a complicated process with intricate ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists has identified a specific stage of neurodevelopment when differentiating neural cells produce fewer ribosomes, which are responsible for making ...

Several epidemiological studies have suggested a link between being born too small and abnormal neurodevelopment in childhood and later life. However, there is little evidence that these factors are ...

In peer-reviewed research of 51,000 pregnant women, Ben-Gurion University scientists find that if hormone imbalance is 'adequately treated,' kids don't exhibit a higher occurrence of ASD The post ...