During pregnancy, a woman's body goes through many changes - hormonal, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and more. But what changes are made in the brain, hasn't been well studied ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field. Certain brain ...

Researchers follow the dramatic changes that occur in the brain throughout the course of pregnancy. Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person's life where the body undergoes rapid ...

Image credit: Studio Firma/Stocksy. The female body goes through a variety of physical changes during pregnancy, including alterations to the brain. Most of the changes are due to pregnancy hormones.

Scientists Show How Pregnancy Changes the Brain in Innumerable Ways Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned ...

A new study conducted by researchers at UC Santa Barbara mapped how the brain responds to rapid hormone changes during pregnancy. Pregnancy is a "transformative period in a person’s life ...

A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck around months after her baby was born. The dataset, published ...

During pregnancy, the body isn’t the only thing going through big changes—your brain does, too.For years, scientists knew the brain changed in motherhood, but only recently have they uncovered ...

Researchers from the University of California – Santa Barbara for the first time show how hormonal shifts alter the brain throughout pregnancy, including changes to the amount of white and gray ...