The Painful Psychological Cost Of Becoming A Dad - Darby Saxbe - #1129

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But you found that dad's brains go through a bunch of changes too. Exactly. Yeah, so I've been looking at new fathers in my lab over the last decade plus We've scanned men when they're midway through their partner's pregnancy. And then again after they have their first child.

And we find that the brain, and I should caveat, this is not a bad thing, but loses gray matter volume across that transition to fatherhood. So the patterns look similar to those that have been observed in moms. And they seem to be of smaller magnitude. They're more variable and they're more tied to dad's parenting experience.

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