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Pregnancy causes changes in the brain that could last for years, study finds

• Pregnant people undergo a lot of major body changes.
• But a new study has found that pregnancy also causes observable changes in the brain — changes that may last long after giving birth.
• The small-scale study, published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience, looked at 25 women in Spain who were planning to become first-time mothers.
• They scanned their brains before they conceived and then again a few months after giving birth.
• The researchers found something striking: The new mothers showed loss of gray matter in parts of the brain that deal with social cognition.
• while a control group of women who had never been pregnant showed no reduction of gray matter over a similar period of time. Read more

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