@article{7116, keywords = {Brain, Cognitive neuroscience, Neuroscience, Social neuroscience}, author = {Elseline Hoekzema and Erika Barba-Müller and Cristina Pozzobon and Marisol Picado and Florencio Lucco and David García-García and Juan Carlos Soliva and Adolf Tobeña and Manuel Desco and Eveline A. Crone and Agustín Ballesteros and Susanna Carmona and Oscar Vilarroya}, title = {Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure}, abstract = {The authors show that pregnancy involves substantial and consistent structural changes in the human brain, primarily located in regions subserving social cognition. These changes overlap with areas that respond to the mothers' babies and predict measures of postpartum maternal attachment. Moreover, they endure for at least 2 years after pregnancy.}, year = {2017}, journal = {Nature Neuroscience}, volume = {20}, pages = {287-296}, month = {2017-02}, issn = {1546-1726}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4458}, doi = {10.1038/nn.4458}, language = {en}, }