What: Another study in Science Advances found that in women with postpartum depression symptoms, areas of the brain that are involved in processing and control of emotions grew in size after childbirth. The study scanned the brains of dozens of women in the weeks before and after childbirth.

Key line: “The new study appears to be the first to scan and compare brain areas during pregnancy and after childbirth and link the changes to postpartum depression, said Elseline Hoekzema, a neuroscientist who heads the Pregnancy and the Brain Lab at Amsterdam University Medical Center and was not involved in the study.”

Source: New York Times