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Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains — study (www.dw.com)

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The researchers found sweeping changes in overall brain neuroanatomy which unfolded week by week during the pregnancy.

Inside Chrastil's brain, grey matter volume, cortical thickness, white matter microstructure, and ventricle volume all changed.

The changes were all over the brain too — "over 80% of my brain regions showed reductions in grey matter volume," Chrastil said.

Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy. Published by Pritschet, L., Taylor, C.M., Cossio, D. et al. in Nature Neuroscience (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01741-0

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

just having to go into an MRI tube every couple weeks without it turned on would probably rewire your brain a little bit. that's not a comfortable place to be mentally.