A new study in Brain Medicine explores how maternal immune activation (MIA) affects hippocampal neuron function in newborn ...

Study shows maternal immune activation alters hippocampal neuron excitability in newborn rats, with implications for autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

Using a well-established animal model, the researchers induced MIA in pregnant rats with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) -- a ...

Maternal infections during pregnancy may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, schizophrenia, and depression, but treatments could help.

surgically joined its circulation to that of a female rat, and transferred embryos into the uteruses of each animal, they found that the male could in fact carry a pregnancy. In 4 percent of cases, ...