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26/09/2023

I’ll be at the Vernon Branch of the Okanagan Library tonight at 7pm talking about Mommy Brain and answering any questions you have about your brain on motherhood (and parenthood, too) ! See you there!

21/07/2023

It's happening - Mommy Brain will be published in English in September 2023 !

PRE-ORDER today! Link in profile.

Mommy Brain is a book for mothers, fathers, parents, and anyone who wants to know about the amazing changes in the parental brain!

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks but I'm excited for you to be able to read it soon.

Eek!
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12/07/2023

Happy summer everyone!

More episodes of Mommy Brain Revisited coming in September.

11/05/2023

🤩 Thank you!

As they say “it’s not big, but it’s small.”
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01/09/2022

The podcast is back! New episode drops today.

In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Amanda Kentner a Full Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in the USA.

We talk about her recent research published at eNeuro on the important role that enrichment can play in parenting and development.

Don’t miss this episode on cutting edge research in behavioral neuroscience.

Download the publication here: https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/4/ENEURO.0148-22.2022

For more information about Prof. Kentner’s research see https://www.kentnerlab.org/

Citations: DeRosa H, Caradonna SG, Tran H, Marrocco J, Kentner AC. Milking It for All It's Worth: The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Maternal Nurturance, Lactation Quality, and Offspring Social Behavior. eNeuro. 2022 Aug 25;9(4):ENEURO.0148-22.2022. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0148-22.2022. PMID: 35995560.

23/08/2022

Wow! Thank you for listening to Mommy Brain Revisited - a podcast on the neuroscience of parenting.

More episodes coming soon!

Check out the podcast on .fm and other podcast providers.

Follow me .jodi_pawluski for more on all things mom brain.

19/08/2022

In stores 31 août ! Hopefully In English soon.
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Rassurez-vous, vous n’êtes pas dingue ! Il se trame bien quelque chose en vous, et cette chose, c’est votre cerveau qui se refait une jeunesse complète et se concentre sur de nouvelles zones d’apprentissage, engendrant tout à la fois une croissance émotionnelle, pratique et sensible incroyable !

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09/07/2022

Have some time to spare this summer? Why not catch up on some Mommy Brain Revisited podcast. Here are a few early favorites.

Prolactin... - #8
Zulresso... - #2
Fear memories... - #4
Roundup and mom gut-brain... - #3
Postpartum Attention... - #9

Let me know what you think and leave a rating!

Happy summer and see you in the fall with new episodes every couple of months!

08/07/2022

In case you missed it the next Parental Brain meeting will be in Spain! Can’t wait.

The podcast will be returning with more episodes in August!

If you have research on the parental brain you’d like to talk about let me know.
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19/06/2022

It's Father's Day and what better time to learn about how the brain changes with fatherhood than today.

Check out podcast #29 of with Dr. Jim Rilling at Emory University.

He does some fascinating research on how a father's brain changes and how these changes are related to hormones and depend on experience parenting.

You can check out the podcast on , , and a number of other podcast providers.

Also - if you like what you hear let us know.

For more on the research related to the neuroscience of parenting you can follow .jodi_pawluski .

24/05/2022

Parental Brain 2022 was a great success and St Malo was spectacular, as usual. 🤩

There is exciting parental brain research on the horizon. ❤️

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22/04/2022

NEW BLOG OUT ! I wrote about the exciting new research from Dr Jim Rilling’s group on how the brain changes with grand parenting.

“ I often think of my Grandma, my dad’s mom. I grew up in the same town as my grandparents in the Okanagan Valley of Western Canada, spent many Sunday dinners at their place, and learned much about my Ukrainian heritage (my grandparents were children of immigrants) from them. Grandma played a significant role in my life, not only for aspects related to my heritage, but also in terms of what it is to be a woman, partner, and mother — in the absence of social norms.

Recently I’ve been wondering how I may have impacted her…”

Check out the blog for more https://www.inspirethemind.org/blog/grandma-brain

14/03/2022

I don’t think I’ve shred this on this new Mommy Brain Revisited account so here it is!

I while ago I wrote this blog for on why we need to revisit how we talk about Mommy Brain / Mom Brain / Baby Brain - the memory loss and brain fog that comes with motherhood.

In brief, your brain does amazing things when you become a parent. For sure changes in memory exist – both positive and negative (which I’ll talk about more soon) - but we need to shift the narrative to include all the changes that take place in your brain when you have a child.

Check it out - Mom Brain Rebranded - at Inspire the Mind or on my website https://www.jodipawluski.com/print .

Let me know what you think!

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23/02/2022

Lab life! I’ve been missing it these days but here’s a taste of what we do when we study mom brains.

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06/02/2022

The Mommy Brain Revisited podcast episodes on how parenting affects your brain later in life.

This research shows that once a parent, always a parent - we can even see this in your 🧠.

This research also suggests that as you change and adapt to different parenting needs your parental brain likely changes too.

I think that’s pretty awesome.

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03/02/2022

Here's a lovely brain image of where childbirth affects your brain when you are in your 50s or so (and your kids were birthed years earlier).

It’s from the work of Dr. Ann-Marie de Lange. I talk with her on episode 27 of podcast (link in profile).

It's exciting research showing the impact of childbirth on brain aging.

Here you can see, in the image from one of her papers, brain regions showing the strongest association with number of previous childbirths.

These brain regions are important for emotional regulation, motivation, and learning - important factors for parenting.

To learn more check out the Mommy Brain Revisited Podcast #27 .

Have questions? Let me know. I always look forward to hearing from you.

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full citation of article:
de Lange AG, Barth C, Kaufmann T, Anatürk M, Suri S, Ebmeier KP, Westlye LT. The maternal brain: Region-specific patterns of brain aging are traceable decades after childbirth. Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Nov;41(16):4718-4729. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25152. Epub 2020 Aug 7. PMID: 32767637; PMCID: PMC7555081.
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02/02/2022

For a brief summary on the science of the lasting effects of parenting on the brain Chaco out Mom Brain Forever over .

02/02/2022

Let’s talk for a moment.

Surprise, surprise - there are long lasting changes in the brain of moms and dads - even into their 70s!

These changes are, for the most part, positive - which means you won't have brain fog or forgetfulness forever - and at times are more pronounced in the mother (birthing parent).

Take home - parenting changes your brain and likely continues to change it as you parent.

I think this is pretty exciting, don’t you?

I have 3 episodes of Mommy Brain Revisited podcast on parenting and brain aging:

🧠Episode 11 with Dr Liisa Galea
🧠Episode 15 with Winnie Orchard (soon to be Dr)
🧠Episode 26 with Dr Ann-Marie De Lange

Check them out and let me know what you think!

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🎧link in profile .
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28/01/2022

Mom-baby neural synchrony! ❤️

I love this research which investigates how brain activity in the mom (or an adult) and brain activity in a baby can be paired together.

When talking about parenting we often think of behavioural synchrony - or responding appropriately to baby - but now we know brain synchrony happens too!

I thought I'd highlight that there are two episodes of Mommy Brain Revisited Podcast on this topic:

🧠Episode 30 with Dr Ruth Feldman

🧠Episode 24 with Dr Victoria Leong.

These two researchers lead groups looking at different aspects of mom-baby brain synchrony.

It's a fascinating area of research and amazing to see how the parental and baby brain work together.

For more - check out each of the episodes! Link in bio to
🎧. Also on , and other podcast providers.

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📸 https://www.cam.ac.uk/.../mothers-and-babies-brains-more...

25/01/2022

New podcast episode out!

In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Ruth Feldman, the Simms-Mann Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlia with joint appointment at Yale Child Study Center.

We talk about her recent research on neural synchrony and how maternal cues can aid in neural synchrony between strangers and infants.

We also talk about the importance of understanding brain changes with perinatal mental illness and her ongoing research on the parental brain.

Don’t miss this episode on cutting edge research from a leader in the field!

For more information about Dr. Feldman’s research see https://ruthfeldmanlab.com/

Link in bio to listen. You can also listen on and more

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24/01/2022

This is so important!

This comes up in the recent Mommy Brain Revisited Podcast episode with Dr. Ruth Feldman. Out later today!

Dr Feldman is an expert in the field and I love that she talks about how mistakes are part of parenting.

We also talk about their recent research on how maternal cues can help enhance brain synchrony between a stranger and an infant.

For more, check out the episode! It's a good one.

Link in profile to listen

You can also fine Mommy Brain Revisited
and more .

For more information about Dr. Feldman’s research see https://ruthfeldmanlab.com/

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22/01/2022

🦩time!You're probably thinking what on earth do flamingos have to do with our mom/parent brains.

Well they are a reminder of how much we change when becoming a mom.

Flamingos are pink (or orangish depending on what they eat) because of what they eat and it takes time to become this color.

Flamingo moms are white and this is because they are 'drained' of their pink color when they parent.

Their color is a visible marker of wellness.

When they are pink again they will breed.

I was reminded of this while watching Life in Color narrated by the always enjoyable Sir David Attenborough ().

He says this about why flamingo moms are white:
"She put all her surplus food and energy into producing an egg and then feeding her chick. She will need time to rebuild up the body reserves needed to regrow pink feathers and breed."

What a good reminder of the impact that parenting has on us.

If only we had a color marker to indicate all the changes we go through and the energy that parenting takes.

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20/01/2022

When talking about dad brains - experience matters and I also like to think motivation matters as well.

We know that many of the brain areas important in mothers / birth-parents are also important in fathers / non-birth parents.

These brain areas include the amygdala, nucleus accumbens, and prefrontal cortical areas, to name a few.

I look at things this way, being pregnant can set up your brain to learn rapidly how to care for your baby, but anyone can parent and their brain will change with experience and practice.

There are many right ways to parent and likely, when looking at the details, there are many 'parental brains'. 😉

For more about fatherhood and the brain check out Episodes 7 and 29 of Mommy Brain Revisited podcast.

🎧 link in bio.

citation for image (it’s a great review):

Feldman R, Braun K, Champagne FA. The neural mechanisms and consequences of paternal caregiving. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2019 Apr;20(4):205-224. doi: 10.1038/s41583-019-0124-6. PMID: 30760881.

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14/01/2022

Here are the Mommy Brain Revisited Podcast episodes on brain changes in Dads (and probably partners too).

You'll hear from the experts !

🧠Dr. Erica Glasper (episode 7)
🧠Dr. Jim Rilling (episode 29)

Take home - Spending time with kids helps shape a dad's brain.

Experience matters (for moms too).

Link in profile to listen.

You can also find Mommy Brain Revisited on major podcast providers. .fm …

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04/01/2022

Did you know that the extent to which you brain changes with motherhood is the same as how a female brain changes during adolescence- At least in the research that’s been conducted so far by Dr S Carmona and team in Madrid.

They looked at cortical thickness of the brain in moms, adolescent girls and adult non moms.

They found that the moms and adolescent girls were matched for changes in all measures of thickness.

These changes weren't huge (

22/12/2021

This post was meant for but this week has been flying by.

The point here is that brain changes with pregnancy are significant and consistent.

This is pretty remarkable in brain imaging research.

You can hear Elseline talk about her research on Episode 13 of Mommy Brain Revisited podcast (link in profile).

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Citation for this work:

Hoekzema E, Barba-Müller E, Pozzobon C, Picado M, Lucco F, García-García D, Soliva JC, Tobeña A, Desco M, Crone EA, Ballesteros A, Carmona S, Vilarroya O. Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Feb;20(2):287-296. doi: 10.1038/nn.4458. Epub 2016 Dec 19. PMID: 27991897.

15/12/2021

The ones on how pregnancy changes your brain.

These episodes of Mommy Brain Revisited focus on the research in women on how pregnancy changes your brain - its structure and function.

You'll here from the experts !

🧠Dr. Elseline Hoekzema (episode 13)
🧠Dr. Susanna Carmona - Laboratorio de Imagen Medica, Madrid (episode 6)
🧠Dr. Helena Rutherford (episode 25)

Link in profile to listen.

You can also find Mommy Brain Revisited on all major podcast providers.

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09/12/2021

Let's talk about maternal mental illness and the brain for a second.

For me, mental illness always implies brain changes but unfortunately we don't know enough about these brain changes with mental illness in pregnancy and postpartum.

We do know that research is starting to point to a unique neural profile with postpartum mental illness.

This neural profile involves similar brain areas as with mental illness at other times in life, BUT the brain activity of these areas with mental illness during the postpartum is different.

We have yet to fully understand how the brain changes with mental illness in pregnancy but hopefully we will get there soon.

We need more research understanding the unique neurobiology of maternal mental illness so that we can optimize treatments as well as reduce risk.

That’s part of why I do what I do.

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Questions? Comments? Let me know. 👇🏾 I’d love to hear from you.

Illustration in a review I co-authored at Trends in Neurosciences in 2017. If you want a PDF of the paper send me your email.

08/12/2021

If you want to hear more on brain changes with perinatal mental illness check out Mommy Brain Revisited podcast.

I talk with the experts about their research on the parental brain and perinatal depression, anxiety, postpartum psychosis. sociocultural stress, environmental stress and more.

Episode # 1, 17, 20, 22, 26 .

Link in bio to listen.

Mommy Brain Revisited podcast can be found on major podcast providers such as , , .fm

Have questions about perinatal mental health and the brain? Let me know below.
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07/12/2021

Too often we focus on the baby and forget that it takes two, or three or four or more, to raise a little one.

We often hear that brain development in infancy and early childhood is vital, which it is, but our brain changes throughout our lives - especially while parenting.

This is why it's important to remember that it's not just about the baby, its about the parent too.

Quote from a fantastic article I was in in 2020 by . - This Is Your Brain On Motherhood: How pregnancy and parenthood kick neurological development into high gear.

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