Newborn finger proportions may reflect early hormone exposure and could be linked to differences in early brain growth.

To describe growth of prematurely born infants and create a growth chart adequate to assess growth of infants with less than 29 completed weeks of gestation. With the approval of the Institutional ...

How do I determine if head growth/circumference is appropriate when small size may be in the family history? I have patients that begin to drop below the 5th percentile, but I suspect this may not be ...

The size of children's heads is not only related to the growth of their skull, but also their brain. A genome-wide analysis now reports the largest known genetic effects on head circumference and the ...

Babies born with a larger head may have an increased risk of childhood brain cancer, research suggests. Head circumference at birth reflects brain size, and researchers suspected that in some cases ...

A study of infants during their first year of life conducted in Israel found that children with consistently small or large head circumferences had around three times higher odds of being diagnosed ...