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Great Dads Are Made, Not Born: The Neuroscience of Fatherhood

Great Dads Are Made, Not Born: The Neuroscience of Fatherhood

Good Inside with Dr. Becky vor 2 Monaten

Dr. Becky and Dr. Darby Saxbe get into the brain plasticity of new parenthood, and why the awkwardness of new fatherhood isn't a signal that you're wrong for the role.

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When a woman becomes a mother, her brain physically reorganizes
around the baby. We've known this for a while. What we didn't
know (until recently) is that the same thing happens to dads.

Dr. Darby Saxbe is a neuroscientist and psychologist at USC, and
one of the only researchers in the world scanning fathers' brains
before and after they have kids. What she found: the same regions
that change and streamline in new mothers change in new fathers.
The more hands-on a dad is, the more pronounced those changes
are.

Dr. Becky and Dr. Darby get into what "losing gray matter"
actually means (it's not what it sounds like), how paternal
postpartum depression shows up differently than maternal (and why
it almost always goes unrecognized), and why the awkwardness of
new fatherhood isn't a signal that you're wrong for the role.

Dr. Saxbe's new book is Dad Brain.

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