Child cognition shaped by pregnancy infections

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3173, 2018, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The brain function of infants may be boosted or hindered by infections experienced by their mothers during pregnancy. Bradley Peterson of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles states that the finding makes it all the more important that pregnant women get vaccinated against flu and practise basic hygiene measures like hand-washing. Peterson's group followed 21 pregnant teenagers and their babies, while they also found that higher inflammation in pregnancy was linked with altered brain connections in the salience network at a few weeks of age, this didn't seem to have a bad effect. When tested at the age of 1, these infants actually had better cognitive abilities than those whose mothers had had less inflammation during pregnancy.