Time.news – With their work In the minds of motherspsychiatrists Lucie Joly and Hugo Bottemanne immerse us in the “magnificent neuronal machinery” of pregnant women.
A certain indolence, a floating mind, a faltering memory, wavering concentration and conflicted moods… Do you know the “mommy brain”, which would make expectant and young mothers lose their heads? Let’s immediately answer the question posed in the title of this article and which, let’s face it, the primary objective was to attract the reader’s attention: obviously no, neither pregnancy nor motherhood makes women stupid.
But there is one thing that is no longer in doubt: as the body of the future mother is “stretched, tugged, weighed down”his brain “changes in form and activity, and profoundly influences the way the pregnancy proceeds” write the hospital psychiatrists in Paris Lucie Joly and Hugo Bottemanne. So much so that some studies claim that a simple brain scan can distinguish the brain of a woman who has been a mother from that of another who has never given birth!
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