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Are brains rewired for caring during pregnancy? Why the jury’s out

Are brains rewired for caring during pregnancy? Why the jury’s out


Are brains rewired for caring during pregnancy? Why the jury’s out

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Your News Feature (_Nature_ 632, 22–24; 2024) highlights efforts to identify how and why the human brain changes through pregnancy. The article emphasizes the hypothesis that these changes prepare pregnant people for parenthood. As neuroscientists and clinicians working with pregnant individuals and new parents to study these changes, we are concerned about the potential unintended impacts of overstressing this hypothesis. COMPETING INTERESTS The authors declare no competing interests.

Your News Feature (_Nature_ 632, 22–24; 2024) highlights efforts to identify how and why the human brain changes through pregnancy. The article emphasizes the hypothesis that these changes


prepare pregnant people for parenthood. As neuroscientists and clinicians working with pregnant individuals and new parents to study these changes, we are concerned about the potential


unintended impacts of overstressing this hypothesis. COMPETING INTERESTS The authors declare no competing interests.


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