Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years'

Posted by Tobi Tarwater on Saturday, August 17, 2024

Elseline Hoekzema, study author and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said: "We can speculate that the volume reductions observed in pregnancy represent a process of specialisation or further maturation of this Theory of Mind network that, in some way, serves an adaptive purpose for pending motherhood."

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