The study builds on earlier findings by the same research team who reported in 2023 that premature babies don't habituate to ...

A new study from University College London highlights that newborns can sense pain even before they can comprehend it. The ...

Preterm babies receive up to 16 painful procedures every day. Pain in early life has been linked to altered brain development ...

Supporting emotional connection between a premature baby and parent during the intensive care unit treatment effectively improves the baby’s brain development. The effects are clearly visible in the ...

The more breast milk premature babies are fed while in neonatal intensive care, the greater the level of brain development, a study suggests. The cerebral cortex—the part of the brain for ...

Vincent Bonin at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and NERF have discovered that mutations in a gene called SYNGAP1 disrupt the prolonged development of human neurons ...

But I confess I was deeply shocked by research showing premature babie s from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have problems with brain development than early babies from better off homes.

This series is the public engagement activity of Professor Hartley's core research project into the relationship between apnoeas and brain development in premature infants. Professor Hartley is a ...

Likewise, long-term poverty could affect a child’s brain development, researchers added. Brains normally shrink as they age, but premature shrinkage is associated with illnesses like Alzheimer ...