We’re thrilled to welcome @susanacarmona.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social to Santa Barbara as a Bowers WBHI Visiting Faculty Fellow to discuss the maternal brain

#bowerswbhi #maternalbrainhealth #ucsb @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

📢 The 2025 call for “César Nombela” research talent attraction grants is now open!
🗓 Deadline: July 16–30
ℹ️ Info: sede.comunidad.madrid/ayudas-becas...
📬 Interested? Contact us at: [email protected]

We also want to thank Tali Sharot & Laura Remis for their work as editors, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback!
Authors: @dmartindeblas @cballesteros_s @MagdaMartinezGa @susanna_carmona @paterninadie

🙏🙏 We sincerely thank all the participants in this study, especially the mothers, for sharing such a special moment with us.

🤰Childbirth is a transformative event that can profoundly shape a woman's life. These results highlight the importance of including childbirth and maternal experiences as key variables in pregnancy neuroscience research. 📷Jennifer Mason

More research is needed to better understand the relationship between these variables and the underlying molecular mechanisms.📝📈👩🏻‍🔬

🚨 We found that adverse childbirth experience is associated with pregnancy-to-postpartum increases in hippocampal volume. We also found that increases in depressive symptoms were positively correlated with greater right amygdala volume🚨

🔍🧠 We longitudinally analyzed the brains of 88 first-time mothers during the peripartum (late pregnancy to early postpartum). We tested if changes in hippocampal and amygdala volume—key for memory and emotional processing—were related to birth experience & perinatal depression.

Check out our latest research in the Women’s Health special issue of @ScienceAdvances! 🧠💡 We explore how birth experience and perinatal depression symptoms relate to neuroanatomical changes in the hippocampus and amygdala.
🔗 Read more: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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After 5 years of data collection (179 first-time mothers + controls), the first bemother.eu/en/ paper is out! We uncovered a U-shaped trajectory in maternal GM volume, resolving a long-standing puzzle in the maternal brain field. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No se me ocurre mejor manera de estrenar el 2025. Deseando trabajar con este equipazo y aprender de él. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social @dmartindeblas.bsky.social

Gracias @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

If you are interested in the neuroscience of human 🤰🏻pregnancy: 👇🏻
We are looking for 🔬a PhD 🧠to join our team! @neuromaternal
Send your ✨CV to [email protected] for more info.

The early postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva call will be opening soon. If you're interested in studying the human maternal brain, please reach out to us. www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...