New study reveals changes in the brain of a woman throughout pregnancy and postpartum

Amazing stuff! Pregnancy seems to affect the whole brain of the pregnant woman.

The author of this article, a woman, used gender ideology! Shame on her! Examples: "Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life ... first-ever map of a human brain over the course of pregnancy ..."

"... “We wanted to look at the trajectory of brain changes specifically within the gestational window,” ... Previous studies had taken snapshots of the brain before and after pregnancy, she said, but never have we witnessed the pregnant brain in the midst of this metamorphosis. ..."

From the abstract:

"Pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological changes experienced by millions of women annually, yet the neural changes unfolding in the maternal brain throughout gestation are not well studied in humans. Leveraging precision imaging, we mapped neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through 2 years postpartum. Pronounced decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness were evident across the brain, standing in contrast to increases in white matter microstructural integrity, ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid, with few regions untouched by the transition to motherhood. This dataset serves as a comprehensive map of the human brain across gestation, providing an open-access resource for the brain imaging community to further explore and understand the maternal brain."

New study reveals changes in the brain throughout pregnancy | The Current

Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy

Fig. 1: Precision imaging reveals neuroanatomical changes throughout gestation.

Fig. 2: Cortical GMV showed widespread change through gestation and postpartum.