A Mother's Brain

The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution

by Susana Carmona

Neuroscientist Susana Carmona draws on more than a decade of her own brain imaging research to show how pregnancy reshapes a woman's brain, in some ways more than adolescence does. She follows the changes from before conception to the years after birth, explains how they relate to a mother's wellbeing and her bond with her baby, and describes how cells carrying the baby's DNA can settle in the mother's brain for life. The book challenges the baby brain stereotype and the long neglect of the maternal brain in medicine. Translated from Spanish by Lily Meyer.