Profound environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological changes mark the transition to
motherhood as a major biosocial life event. Despite the ubiquity of motherhood, the …

We are witnessing a stark increase in scientific interest in the neurobiological processes
associated with pregnancy and maternity. Convergent evidence suggests that around the …

While animal studies have demonstrated a unique reproduction-related neuroplasticity, little
is known on the effects of pregnancy on the human brain. Here we investigated whether …

Despite widespread sex differences in prevalence and presentation of numerous illnesses
affecting the human brain, there has been little focus on the effect of endocrine ageing. Most …

Growing attention has been directed to the inclusion of females in neuroscience studies, and
to the importance of studying sex as a biological variable. However, how female-specific …

Neuroscience research has historically demonstrated sex bias that favors male over female
research subjects, as well as sex omission, which is the lack of reporting sex. Here we …

Maternal brain adaptations have been found across pregnancy and postpartum, but little is
known about the long-term effects of parity on the maternal brain. Using neuroimaging and …

Neuroimaging researchers commonly assume that the brain of a mother is comparable to
that of a nulliparous woman. However, pregnancy leads to pronounced gray matter volume …

Pregnancy involves maternal brain adaptations, but little is known about how parity
influences women's brain aging trajectories later in life. In this study, we replicated previous …

Women that become mothers face notable physiological adaptations during this life-period.
Neuroimaging studies of the last decade have provided grounded evidence that women's …