Ian Sample speaks with Dr. Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision imaging to capture the profound changes that happen across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganized during this time, whether it can help us better understand conditions like preeclampsia and postpartum depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience.
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