We've known for a while that alcohol reaching the fetus can lead to mental retardation and heart defects and that the stew of toxins in tobacco can cause upper-respiratory-tract and ear infections. But these compounds work by more or less poisoning the baby. The result is often a child ...
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Human neonates can discriminate phonemes, but the neural mechanism underlying this ability is poorly understood. Here we show that the neonatal brain can learn to discriminate natural vowels from backward vowels, a contrast unlikely to have been learnt in the womb. Using functional near-infrared spe...
It transfers oxygen and nutrients from mother to baby and returns carbon dioxide and waste products in the reverse direction, thereby acting as the baby's lungs, kidneys and digestive tract all at once. Loke also reveals other intriguing aspects of this organ. For instance, the placenta is ...
The overall number of lymphocytes rapidly expands in the first few weeks after birth because of the colonization of the skin, the lungs, and the gastrointestinal tract. However, at least partly because of impaired antigen presentation, lymphocytes are still immature in infants, with abundance of ...
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They do not recommend routine circumcision, however, they stated that because of the possible benefits (including prevention from urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and some STDs) parents should have the option to circumcise their sons if they want to (AAP, 2012).[3]...
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Moreover, the main fascicles of myelinated long-range connections such as the corpus callosum, cerebellar peduncles, corticospinal tract, spinothalamic tract are unambiguously identified at the age of 1– 4 mo (23). In short, the vertical brain stem, diencephalic, and thalamocortical pathways, ...