Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life ...

A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.

While trying to conceive, learning and memory researcher Liz Chrastil took an unusual step: She became her own subject in a ...

Hormones produced in pregnancy may have been crucial to human brain evolution, researchers say At the same time, lower levels of male sex hormones, including testosterone, to oestrogens may have ...

Adriana Smith was eight weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead.

During the pregnancy and for 2 years after she gave birth, they continued doing MRI brain scans and drawing blood to observe how her brain changed as sex hormones like estrogen ebbed and flowed.

I'm a neuroscientist. I scanned my own brain 26 times to see how it changed during pregnancy. 'This is a huge area of research that has been overlooked.' ...

Adriana Smith, who was 10 weeks pregnant in February when she was declared brain dead, was kept alive due to Georgia’s strict ban on abortion. After nearly four months on life support, Smith ...