In other words, they’re losing their minds — literally and figuratively.
, the changes in their brain could be making it easier to connect with their kid — although that hasn’t been proven., hypothesized the cause of such brain shrinkage but couldn’t determine what exactly the root was.
While women experience “pregnancy brain,” there is now proof that the brain of fathers can change, too.Using magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as MRIs, to look at the brains of 40 heterosexual, first-time dads, researchers compared their brains to 17 men without kids. Out of the 40, half of the fathers, who were in Spain, had their brains scanned prior to their partners’ pregnancies, then again after the birth.
Instead of a shift in limbic subcortical networks — what happens in women’s brains when they have a child — scientists found evidence of changes in the cortical gray matter, which is used in social understanding, as well as a loss of volume in their visual system. “These findings may suggest a unique role of the visual system in helping fathers to recognize their infants and respond accordingly, a hypothesis to be confirmed by future studies,” the researchers said. “Understanding how the structural changes associated with fatherhood translate into parenting and child outcomes is a largely unexplored topic, providing exciting avenues for future research.”
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