The sweeping reorganisation of the brain in pregnancy, and why it matters

Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of
psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research
using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep
across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work
reveals about how the brain is reorganised in this period, whether
it could it help us better understand conditions like pre-eclampsia
and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been
overlooked by neuroscience. And neuroscientist Dr Liz Chrastil
whose brain was scanned, explains what the experience was like.
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