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Brain study identifies a cost of caregiving for new fathers
- Darby Saxbe and colleagues at USC studied brain changes in 38 first-time fathers during 2024 in California.
- Researchers conducted the study to examine links between brain volume loss and parenting, sleep, and mental health symptoms.
- They found fathers lost about 1% of gray matter volume, paralleling mothers’ brain changes and associated with more parenting engagement.
- Men with greater brain volume loss reported higher depression, anxiety, and worse sleep at both six and 12 months postpartum.
- These findings indicate caregiving may pose mental health risks for new fathers and support policies reducing stress for parents postpartum.
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Lopolo // Shutterstock Lopolo // Shutterstock Brain study identifies a cost of caregiving for new fathers Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood, Darby Saxbe, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, writes for The Conversation. But researchers are still figuring out what these changes mean for paren…
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Brain study identifies a cost of caregiving for new fathers
The Conversation reports on research that has revealed that the brains of fathers as well as mothers have revealed that the brain lose volume across the transition to parenthood, and researchers are still figuring out what these changes mean for…
Fathers shape their children far more than long assumed – in both positive and negative. Brain researcher Gerald Hüther explains why men have a special meaning for their offspring.
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