Parental Mental Illness and Offspring IQ: Schizophrenia Hits Hardest
A 1.6M-participant meta-analysis shows a clear gradient: parental schizophrenia hits offspring cognition harder than bipolar, which hits harder than MDD.
cognitive development
Smoking Marijuana While Pregnant: How Pot Affects An Unborn Baby’s Brain Development
Many prospective mothers have been guilty of smoking marijuana while pregnant – that’s a fact. The majority of those mothers probably didn’t realize that by smoking marijuana, they could affect their baby’s brain development. A newer study suggests that not only can marijuana affect the way in which brain cells are wired, which in turn …