Neuroscience researcher Liz Chrastil (pictured with her child) hopes her brain scans and other studies will help identify how the risks of postpartum depression change during pregnancy. (Photo ...

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New study examines how pregnancy can alter a woman's brain as well as her body. — -- Pregnancy may result in long-lasting changes in a woman's brain, according to a study of a small group of ...

If you catch yourself misplacing keys, climbing stairs and wondering why you are here, and forgetting things often, then you are dealing with pregnancy brain fog. The pregnancy brain is real, and ...

News outlets have been reporting the story of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed as brain dead in February 2025 when she was nine weeks pregnant. According to reports, Smith had ...

A 16-weeks pregnant woman is being kept alive on life support to save her unborn baby, despite being pronounced brain-dead by Ireland's leading neurosurgeons, reported the Irish Independent. The woman ...

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 ...

Laws such as Georgia's LIFE Act can complicate ethical and legal decision-making in postmortem pregnancy. Darya Komarova/Moment via Getty Images Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had ...

Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and problem-solving skills at ages 7 to 12 compared with those whose mothers had lower ...

Researchers have solved the decades-old mystery behind how a common pregnancy drug lowers blood pressure. It turns out the ...