TY - JOUR
KW - Brain
KW - Cognitive neuroscience
KW - Neuroscience
KW - Social neuroscience
AU - Elseline Hoekzema
AU - Erika Barba-Müller
AU - Cristina Pozzobon
AU - Marisol Picado
AU - Florencio Lucco
AU - David García-García
AU - Juan Carlos Soliva
AU - Adolf Tobeña
AU - Manuel Desco
AU - Eveline A. Crone
AU - Agustín Ballesteros
AU - Susanna Carmona
AU - Oscar Vilarroya
AB - 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.
BT - Nature Neuroscience
DA - 2017-02
DO - 10.1038/nn.4458
IS - 2
LA - en
N2 - 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.
PY - 2017
SP - 287
EP - 296
T2 - Nature Neuroscience
TI - Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4458
VL - 20
Y2 - 2026-02-24
SN - 1546-1726
ER -