Neuromaternal

📢 The 2025 call for “César Nombela” research talent attraction grants is now open!
🗓 Deadline: July 16–30
ℹ️ Info: sede.comunidad.madrid/ayudas-becas...
📬 Interested? Contact us at: neuromaternal@gmail.com

We also want to thank Tali Sharot & Laura Remis for their work as editors, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback!
Authors: @dmartindeblas @cballesteros_s @MagdaMartinezGa @susanna_carmona @paterninadie

🙏🙏 We sincerely thank all the participants in this study, especially the mothers, for sharing such a special moment with us.

🤰Childbirth is a transformative event that can profoundly shape a woman's life. These results highlight the importance of including childbirth and maternal experiences as key variables in pregnancy neuroscience research. 📷Jennifer Mason

More research is needed to better understand the relationship between these variables and the underlying molecular mechanisms.📝📈👩🏻‍🔬

🚨 We found that adverse childbirth experience is associated with pregnancy-to-postpartum increases in hippocampal volume. We also found that increases in depressive symptoms were positively correlated with greater right amygdala volume🚨

🔍🧠 We longitudinally analyzed the brains of 88 first-time mothers during the peripartum (late pregnancy to early postpartum). We tested if changes in hippocampal and amygdala volume—key for memory and emotional processing—were related to birth experience & perinatal depression.

Check out our latest research in the Women’s Health special issue of @ScienceAdvances! 🧠💡 We explore how birth experience and perinatal depression symptoms relate to neuroanatomical changes in the hippocampus and amygdala.
🔗 Read more: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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After 5 years of data collection (179 first-time mothers + controls), the first bemother.eu/en/ paper is out! We uncovered a U-shaped trajectory in maternal GM volume, resolving a long-standing puzzle in the maternal brain field. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No se me ocurre mejor manera de estrenar el 2025. Deseando trabajar con este equipazo y aprender de él. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social @dmartindeblas.bsky.social

Gracias @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

If you are interested in the neuroscience of human 🤰🏻pregnancy: 👇🏻
We are looking for 🔬a PhD 🧠to join our team! @neuromaternal
Send your ✨CV to neuromaternal@gmail.com for more info.

The early postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva call will be opening soon. If you're interested in studying the human maternal brain, please reach out to us. www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...