Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27720018-20160906015503/@comment-108.29.192.245-20170108204146

108.29.192.245 wrote: 49.97.101.138 wrote:

I'm sorry to tell you that even the meanest person can change for their children because they love them. THAT my friend, is a mother for you. Don't underestimate a mother's love. Research supports that becoming a mother changes a women's brain.

A first-of-its-kind study has revealed that the architecture of women’s brains changes strikingly during their first pregnancies, in ways that last for at least 2 years. In particular, gray matter shrinks in areas involved in processing and responding to social signals. This may mean that new mothers’ brains are more efficiently wired in areas that allow them, for instance, to respond to their infant’s needs or to detect threatening people in their environments. The changes correlated with standard tests of a mother’s attachment to her infant—and they occurred whether a woman conceived naturally or using in vitro fertilization.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/pregnancy-can-resculpt-women-s-brains-2-years