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# Susana Carmona

Susana Carmona is a Spanish neuroscientist who studies how pregnancy and motherhood change the brain. She founded Neuromaternal, a research lab based in Madrid, and is the author of A Mother's Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution, published in English by MIT Press in October 2026.

**Neuroscientist and founder of the Neuromaternal lab**

## Books

- [A Mother's Brain](/book/a-mother-s-brain)