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
postpartum period are necessary to elucidate the mediators contributing to the brain plasticity
… and to better track the structural changes in a woman’s brain across this dynamic period. …

The plasticity of human maternal brain: longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period.

P Kim, JF Leckman, LC Mayes, R Feldman… - Behavioral …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
… Finally, our findings on the plasticity of the parental brain demonstrate normative changes
among human mothers since the sample included healthy mothers of healthy infants who lived …

The maternal brain: an organ with peripartal plasticity

KM Hillerer, VR Jacobs, T Fischer, L Aigner - Neural plasticity, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… in sheep during the early postpartum period [125]. Comparable … neurogenesis during the
postpartum period. In all species … at parturition or the first days postpartum, as seen in the OB …

[PDF][PDF] Postpartal neural plasticity of the maternal brain: Early renormalization of pregnancy-related decreases?

N Lisofsky, J Gallinat, U Lindenberger, S Kühn - Neurosignals, 2019 - pure.mpg.de
brain volume renormalize during the first months postpartum. … -brain VBM analysis indicates
a renormalization of brain structure … plasticity and hormonal levels during postpartum period

Plasticity of GABAA receptors during pregnancy and postpartum period: from gene to function

V Licheri, G Talani, AA Gorule, MC Mostallino… - … plasticity, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… results regarding the regulation and plasticity of GABAA receptor function during pregnancy
and postpartum period in rats. The increase in brain levels of neuroactive steroids during …

Human maternal brain plasticity: adaptation to parenting

P Kim - New directions for child and adolescent development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
postpartum period as a window of vulnerabilities and opportunities when the human maternal
brain … Pregnancy and the early postpartum period represent a sensitive period when new …

The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans

P Kim, L Strathearn, JE Swain - Hormones and behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
… the maternal brain related to psychopathology (ie, postpartumplasticity in the maternal
brain. In rodents, changes in the neural structure and function during the early postpartum period

Oxytocin and maternal brain plasticity

S Kim, L Strathearn - New directions for child and adolescent …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The present paper aims to synthesize the growing body of research on the role of OT in
regulating plasticity in the mother's brain during pregnancy and the postpartum period. We focus …

Less can be more: Fine tuning the maternal brain

JL Pawluski, E Hoekzema, B Leuner… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
… to improve our understanding of the unique brain plasticity occurring during matrescence. …
in the postpartum period reveal that this is also a dynamic period in terms of brain plasticity. …

… stress and Selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant treatment on structural plasticity in the postpartum brain—A translational model for postpartum …

A Haim, C Albin-Brooks, M Sherer, E Mills… - Hormones and …, 2016 - Elsevier
postpartum period would reverse the adverse effects of gestational stress on postpartum mood
and structural plasticity in … on postpartum mood and structural plasticity noted in this study. …