According to new research, scientists have linked one of the first comprehensive details about how brain health changes throughout pregnancy. During the study, they found that certain brain regions may reduce in size during pregnancy time and yet improve connectivity with a few parts of the brain that stayed untouched by the changes to motherhood. New Delhi: Pregnancy is the most beautiful phase in a woman’s life, during this period new mothers-to-be go through many ups and downs both physically and mentally.
According to new research, scientists have linked one of the first comprehensive details about how brain health changes throughout pregnancy. During the study, they found that certain brain regions may reduce in size during pregnancy time and yet improve connectivity with a few parts of the brain that stayed untouched by the changes to motherhood. According to the study published on Monday in the Journal of Nature Neuroscience , the study’s findings are based on a healthy 38-year-old lady whose details were registered before conception two years after childbirth.
Earlier studies had taken some snapshots of the brain functioning before and after the pregnancy, in which the researchers noticed that they had witnessed the pregnant brain in the middle of the transformation timeline. For the study, the researchers scanned the brains of first-time mothers every few weeks, starting from the time of pregnancy and continuing to the two years of postpartum. And the data gather.