How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood
It’s a transformational time long neglected by neuroscience. That is starting to change.
In November 2008, neuroscientist Susana Carmona — then a postdoc studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — was driving two colleagues to a party when one of them revealed that she was thinking about having a child. The trio became so engulfed in conversation about how pregnancy might change her brain that they diverted from the party and headed to their laboratory to search the literature.
They found numerous studies in rodents, but in humans, “there was basically nothing at all”, says Carmona.
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