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The maternal 'baby brain' revisited

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Pregnancy results in changes to maternal physiology and brain that may extend into older age. New results show that pregnancy-induced reductions in gray matter volume remain 2 years after childbirth in humans.

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Figure 1: Effect of pregnancy on maternal brain, behavior and physiology across the lifespan.

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  1. Cindy K. Barha and Liisa A.M. Galea are at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,

    Cindy K Barha & Liisa A M Galea

  2. Cindy K. Barha is in the Department of Physical Therapy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,

    Cindy K Barha

  3. Liisa A.M. Galea is in the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,

    Liisa A M Galea

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Barha, C., Galea, L. The maternal 'baby brain' revisited. Nat Neurosci 20, 134–135 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4473

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