Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganized during this period, whether it can help us better understand conditions such as pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience.
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