The real baby brain

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3055, 2016, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's true that pregnant women and new mothers often report cognitive problems. In surveys, up to four-fifths of pregnant women report that they have more trouble remembering phone numbers or stringing a complex sentence together than before they got pregnant. Those results appeared to be bolstered by a widely cited 1997 study revealing that women's brains shrink by up to 7 per cent over the course of a pregnancy. Young investigates what underpins these dramatic changes