This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery
The Mother of all Brain Changes - Chelsea Conaboy
27 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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New parents - especially moms - experience profound changes in the brain when they are expecting and welcoming a new baby. Health journalist Chelsea Conaboy explains how the caricature of "mommy brain" and its cognitive fog has it all wrong - parenthood actually has a neuroprotective effect, as the brain adapts to meeting the needs of children. It happens to all parents, not just mothers, but it's most dramatic in gestating parents.

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