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By Guest PostAugust 21, 2016Healthbehavior, brain, brittany osborne, disorders, immune system, jaclyn schwarz, pregnant woman, prenatal infection, risk, sex difference, zika virus

Researchers find prenatal infection may create risk for later disorders

The Zika virus now active in numerous countries, and the severe birth defects associated with it, makes it clear that infection in pregnant women can have immediate and devastating effects on the developing baby. (more…)

Women 16 – 49 at Risk of Multiple Pollutants

In a new analysis of thousands of U.S. women of childbearing age, Brown University researchers found that most exceeded the median blood level for two or more of three environmental pollutants that could harm brain development of fetuses and babies: lead, mercury, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). (more…)

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Immune system, brain and behavior

Women 16 – 49 at Risk of Multiple Pollutants