Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she ...

In the new study, co-author Laura Pritschet, a PhD student, and her team determined that along with a rise in estrogen and ...

Some of the changes continued past pregnancy. “Previous studies had taken snapshots of the brain before and after pregnancy, but we’ve never witnessed the brain in the midst of this ...

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 ...

The functional implications these brain changes may have for birthing parents have yet to be determined, said Dr. Elseline Hoekzema, head of the Pregnancy and the Brain Lab at Amsterdam University ...