Question

why women brain shrink during pregnancy

Answer 1

due to oxytocin hormone

Answer 2

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It’s a wonderful thing to see – the deep bond between a mother and her baby.

And it may be because the mom’s brain shrank during pregnancy.

Yup, it got smaller.

A just-released study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience shows that pregnant women lose gray matter in areas of the brain that deal with people’s feelings and nonverbal signals.

However, the loss, rather than diminish this area of brain processing, appears to make it more efficient, enabling improved interpretation of their babies’ needs and emotions, and therefore increasing their maternal attachment.

Due to the time frame of the study, which was conducted by researchers in the Netherlands and Spain, it is not known whether the effects are permanent or temporary.