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Brain scans show motherhood rewires social cognition regions
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Brain scans of 25 first-time mothers show grey-matter reductions in social cognition regions, changes still visible two years later in 11 women. The 2017 Nature Neuroscience study, led by Elseline Hoekzema, found changes correlated with maternal attachment and responded preferentially to a mother's own baby.
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