{"id":89118,"date":"2024-09-16T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=89118"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:08:04","slug":"certain-brain-networks-especially-those-involved-in-social-and-emotional-processing-shrink-during-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=89118","title":{"rendered":"\u201ccertain brain networks, especially those involved in social and emotional processing, shrink during pregnancy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/16\/health\/pregnancy-brain-changes.html\">Link<\/a>. Similar to adolescent pruning of key neural networks. Suggests optimizing or locking-in some bonding behaviors that favor infant survival. (But may decrease maternal survival. )<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the ninth week of gestation, 80 percent of 400 brain areas analyzed showed decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness that continued through pregnancy, with areas shrinking by 4 percent on average. Change was particularly pronounced in the default mode network, which is instrumental in perceiving other people\u2019s feelings and perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. Similar to adolescent pruning of key neural networks. Suggests optimizing or locking-in some bonding behaviors that favor infant survival. (But may decrease maternal survival. ) \u201cBy the ninth week of gestation, 80 percent of 400 brain areas analyzed showed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=89118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-89118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89119,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89118\/revisions\/89119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}