The health of mothers during pregnancy has long been known to play a role in the lifelong mental and physical health of offspring. Recent studies have found that contracting an infection during ...

Nutritional epigenetics examines how maternal diet influences fetal gene expression through mechanisms such as DNA methylation, thereby shaping lifelong risks of metabolic, neurodevelopmental, and ...

We often hear the phrase, "You are what you eat." But what if it also applied to your children—even before they're born? Research from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) ...

When people ask me to explain the imprinted brain theory, I usually start by pointing out that the paradox of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or autism is that, although they are known to run ...

Pregnancy was found to accelerate epigenetic aging by up to 5.3 years in nulliparous women, a prospective study has found. Further, an older first trimester epigenetic age was associated with a ...