The maternal brain is more flexible and responsive at rest: effective connectivity of the parental caregiving network in postpartum mothers

Abstract The field of neuroscience has largely overlooked the impact of motherhood on brain function outside the context of responses to infant stimuli. Here, we apply spectral dynamic causal modelling (spDCM) to resting-state fMRI data to investigate differences in brain function between a group of...

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Main Authors: Edwina R. Orchard, Katharina Voigt, Sidhant Chopra, Tribikram Thapa, Phillip G. D. Ward, Gary F. Egan, Sharna D. Jamadar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31696-4