«Fight or flight is pointless if you are tiny,» said developmental neuroscientist Nim Tottenham of Columbia University, who presented the work March 26 at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting. (sciencenews.org)
In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term. (sciencemag.org)
The work shows «quite convincingly» that the brain cells can become normal - looking muscle, says developmental neuroscientist Derek van der Kooy of the University of Toronto. (sciencemag.org)