ReviewFrontiers in global women's health2021
Characterizing the Brain Structural Adaptations Across the Motherhood Transition.
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- Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood's impact on well-being.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Neuroanatomical Increases from Early to One-Year Postpartum.Research square · 2024Article
- Cortical volume reductions in men transitioning to first-time fatherhood reflect both parenting engagement and mental health risk.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Time-sensitive changes in the maternal brain and their influence on mother-child attachment.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Women's neuroplasticity during gestation, childbirth and postpartum.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Cellular and molecular signatures of motherhood in the adult and ageing rat brain.Open biology · 2023Article
- Study protocol for improving mental health during pregnancy: a randomized controlled low-intensity m-health intervention by midwives at primary care centers.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Association of women-specific health factors in the severity of Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
Women that become mothers face notable physiological adaptations during this life-period. Neuroimaging studies of the last decade have provided grounded evidence that women's brains structurally change across the transition into motherhood. The characterization of this brain remodeling is currently in its early years of research. The current article reviews this scientific field by focusing on our longitudinal (pre-to-post pregnancy) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies in first-time parents and other longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of parents. We present the questions that are currently being answered by the parental brain literature and point out those that have not yet been explored. We also highlight potential confounding variables that need to be considered when analyzing and interpreting brain changes observed during motherhood.
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