Exposing Mother to Smoke While Pregnant Can Lead to Cerebral Palsy, Study Suggests

A study in mice has linked mothers’ exposure to smoke to their offsprings’ development of cerebral palsy and cognitive problems. The study, “Maternal Cigarette Smoke Exposure Worsens Neurological Outcomes in Adolescent Offspring with Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury,” was published in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. Depriving a…

NIH Funds Research Projects on Treatments for Perinatal Brain Injury

Neonatal-perinatal specialist Dr. Barbara Stonestreet, of Women & Infants Hospital, in Rhode Island, received two grants recently from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine the most effective treatments for full-term and premature infants exposed to hypoxia-ischemia and other perinatal brain injuries. Hypoxia-ischemia (HI) is described as insufficient blood flow to…