Beyond sex differences: short-and long-term effects of pregnancy on the brain

TA Puri, JE Richard, LAM Galea - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
humans and rodents indicating that pregnancy can modify neural function in the short term,
as well as alter the trajectory of brain … have long-lasting effects on maternal health. During …

The expectant brainpregnancy leads to changes in brain morphology in the early postpartum period

N Chechko, J Dukart, S Tchaikovski… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… suggests that pregnancy and the postpartum period change the maternal human brain. …
Investigating the possible long-lasting changes in brain structure, we found multiparous women …

The long and short term effects of motherhood on the brain

P Duarte-Guterman, B Leuner, LAM Galea - Frontiers in …, 2019 - Elsevier
… of pregnancy and motherhood (parity) on brain health … pregnancy and motherhood are
unique female experiences that need to be taken into account to better understand female brain

[HTML][HTML] Long-term association of pregnancy and maternal brain structure: the Rotterdam Study

J Aleknaviciute, TE Evans, E Aribas… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
brain. Yet the long-term effects of pregnancy on maternal brain structure remain unknown. …
cohort to examine the association between parity and brain structure. In total, 2,835 women (…

Gray matter increases within subregions of the hippocampal complex after pregnancy

E Luders, C Gaser, M Gingnell, J Engman… - Brain imaging and …, 2021 - Springer
brain tissue lost during pregnancy is being restored after giving birth, perhaps even expanded
compared to before pregnancy… increases in the female human brain after giving birth, with …

[HTML][HTML] Do pregnancy-induced brain changes reverse? The brain of a mother six years after parturition

M Martínez-García, M Paternina-Die, E Barba-Müller… - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… indicate that pregnancy has a long-lasting—perhaps irreversible—impact on women’s … of
pregnancy on the human brain. Our results illustrate that pregnancy-induced brain changes are …

[HTML][HTML] Brain plasticity in pregnancy and the postpartum period: links to maternal caregiving and mental health

E Barba-Müller, S Craddock, S Carmona… - Archives of women's …, 2019 - Springer
… Research investigating the human brain in relation to pregnancy and the postpartum period
… indicate that the human brain also undergoes dramatic changes during pregnancy and the …

Pregnancy leads to changes in the brain functional network: a connectome analysis

T Chu, Y Li, K Che, F Dong, H Ma, Y Shi… - Brain Imaging and …, 2021 - Springer
… In this study, we investigated the effect of pregnancy on human brain function networks. …
suggested that pregnancy not only leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure (…

Pregnancy and adolescence entail similar neuroanatomical adaptations: A comparative analysis of cerebral morphometric changes

S Carmona, M Martínez‐García… - Human brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Mapping the impact of pregnancy on the human brain is essential for understanding the
neurobiology of maternal caregiving. Recently, we found that pregnancy leads to a long-lasting

[HTML][HTML] The neuroanatomy of pregnancy and postpartum

E Luders, F Kurth, IS Poromaa - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
changes in the female brain. To keep the article as focused and concise as possible, it is
centered on changes in the human brain, during pregnancy … using structural neuroimaging. In …