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The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period
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Animal studies suggest that structural changes occur in the maternal brain during the early postpartum period in regions such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, parietal lobe, and prefrontal cortex and such changes are related to the expression of maternal behaviors. In an attempt to explore this in humans, we conducted a prospective longitudinal study to examine gray matter changes using voxel-based morphometry on high resolution magnetic resonance images of mothers' brains at two time points: 2-4 weeks postpartum and 3-4 months postpartum. Comparing gray matter volumes across these two time points, we found increases in gray matter volume of the prefrontal cortex, parietal lobes, and midbrain areas. Increased gray matter volume in the midbrain including the hypothalamus, substantia nigra, and amygdala was associated with maternal positive perception of her baby. These results suggest that the first months of motherhood in humans are accompanied by structural changes in brain regions implicated in maternal motivation and behaviors.
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In a prospective longitudinal MRI study of 19 mothers, gray matter volume increased from 2–4 weeks to 3–4 months postpartum in prefrontal, parietal, and midbrain regions. Mothers’ positive perception of their baby at Time 1 predicted gray matter increase in a midbrain cluster including hypothalamus, amygdala, and substantia nigra.
Key findings
- From Time 1 (2–4 weeks postpartum) to Time 2 (3–4 months postpartum), mothers showed increased gray matter volume in superior, middle, and inferior prefrontal cortex, precentral and postcentral gyrus, superior and inferior parietal lobe, insula, and thalamus, p < .05 FDR corrected, >100 voxels; no region showed decreased gray matter volume.
- Positive thoughts on baby at Time 1 averaged 6.11 (SD = 2.83; range 1–12) and significantly predicted gray matter volume change in a midbrain cluster including hypothalamus, amygdala, and substantia nigra, controlling for parenting experience and scan interval, β = .44, p = .01.
- Positive thoughts on parenting averaged 8.21 (SD = 7.71; range 1–32) and did not significantly predict gray matter changes in the same midbrain region.
Methods
- Prospective longitudinal study of 19 biological mothers of full-term, healthy infants (mean age = 33.27, SD = 6.07), recruited at Yale-New Haven Hospital; all were right-handed, Caucasian, married or cohabiting, and breastfeeding.
- High-resolution T1-weighted MRI scans were obtained at 2–4 weeks postpartum (Time 1) and 3–4 months postpartum (Time 2), with an average interval of 76.53 days (SD = 9.88).
- Optimized voxel-based morphometry (VBM) with paired t tests tested gray matter changes; whole-brain significance used FDR 5% and extent threshold of 100 voxels. Multiple regression tested associations between YIPTA-R positive thoughts on parenting/baby and midbrain gray matter volume changes, controlling for parenting experience and scan interval.
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- The paper states the sample is relatively small and requires replication in larger groups; causal directionality is not clear; maternal behaviors were measured by subjective reports; and VBM has limited ability to interpret microstructural/functional nature of findings.
- The paper notes the sample included healthy mothers of healthy infants in supportive environments, so mothers with genetic/environmental risk factors may show different patterns.
- The paper states other factors should be monitored in future studies, including hormones, pregnancy stress, menstrual cycle changes, hydration, weight, and nutritional status; it also suggests future studies include pregnancy baseline scans and comparisons with age-matched women without parenting experience.
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“The positive thoughts on parenting did not significantly predict the gray matter changes in the same region.”
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“The mother’s positive perception of her baby at Time 1 significantly predicted gray matter volume change from Time 1 to Time 2 in a cluster of the midbrain including hypothalamus, amygdala, and substantia nigra, controlling for parenting experience and scan interval, β = .44, p = .01”
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“Increased gray matter volume in the midbrain including the hypothalamus, substantia nigra, and amygdala was associated with maternal positive perception of her baby.”
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“No brain region showed a decrease in gray matter volumes from Time 1 to Time 2, p < .05 (FDR corrected), > 100 voxels.”
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“Optimized whole brain VBM analyses revealed that from Time 1 (2–4 weeks postpartum) to Time 2 (3–4 months postpartum), mothers showed an increase in gray matter volume in a number of brain regions including superior, middle and inferior prefrontal cortex, precentral and postcentral gyrus, superior and inferior parietal lobe, insula and thalamus, p < .05 (FDR corrected), > 100 voxels”
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“Several key maternal motivation and behavior regions including bilateral hypothalamus, amygdala, substantia nigra, and globus pallidus showed increases in gray matter volume during the early postpartum period.”
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“Thus, interactions with the infant during the first postpartum months may be associated with the increased gray matter volumes in the hypothalamus, substantia nigra, globus pallidus, and amygdala”
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“With this caveat in mind, we consider that the current group differences in the VBM measure indicate an increase in regional gray matter volume.”
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“These results suggest that the first months of motherhood in humans are accompanied by structural changes in brain regions implicated in maternal motivation and behaviors.”
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“Thus, the mother’s positive feelings on her baby may facilitate the increased levels of gray matter volume.”
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“Thus, interactions with the infant during the first postpartum months may be associated with the increased gray matter volumes in the hypothalamus, substantia nigra, globus pallidus, and amygdala may help the mothers activate their maternal motivation and respond to infant cues.”
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“An increase in gray matter volumes was also found in the right substantia nigra, a key region of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system responsible for processing reward signals”
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- Not checked yetcites Schultz, Dayan, & Montague, 1997
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“Activations of the amygdala, particularly the medial amygdala, inhibit maternal responses to pup in virgin rats.”
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“Finally, our findings on the plasticity of the parental brain demonstrate normative changes among human mothers since the sample included healthy mothers of healthy infants who lived in supportive environments.”
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“The prefrontal cortex is involved in integrating these information and monitoring parental behaviors”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Afonso, Sison, Lovic, & Fleming, 2007
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“However, animal studies suggest that once mothers are exposed to their offspring, such pathways involving the medial amygdala may be a key to consolidating maternal learning about the infant”
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- Not checked yetcites Fleming, Gavarth, & Sarker, 1992
- Not checked yetcites Mayes, 2006
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“In human mothers, recent functional MRI (fMRI) brain studies have reported that many of these brain regions including substantia nigra, amygdala, thalamus, parietal cortex, and prefrontal cortex were activated in response to infant-related stimuli, supporting the role of these brain areas for the development and expression of parenting behaviors”
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- Not checked yetcites Lenzi et al., 2008
- Not checked yetcites Lorberbaum et al., 2002
- Not checked yetcites Noriuchi et al., 2008
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“This increase may be attributed to enlarged neuropil, neuronal size, or extended dendritic, or axonal arborization”
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- Not checked yetcites Ashburner & Friston, 2001
- Not checked yetcites Draganski & May, 2008
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“Statistical significance was defined using a whole-brain false-discovery-rate (FDR) of 5% (p < .05) and an extent threshold of 100 voxels after multiple comparison correction”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Methods > Voxel-Based Morphometry Longitudinal Analysis
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- Not checked yetcites Genovese, Lazar, & Nichols, 2002
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“The animal literature underlines the importance of these structures for parenting and lesions in the hypothalamus including MPOA impairs maternal motivation and in the MPOA regions increase the likelihood of infanticide”
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- Not checked yetcites Flannelly et al., 1986
- Not checked yetcites Novakova et al., 1993
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“First, although the findings are in accord with animal literature, the study has a relatively small sample size and requires replication in larger groups.”
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“Third, although VBM is an increasingly widely used tool to examine changes in brain structure among healthy and clinical population (Good et al., 2001; Rüsch et al., 2003), interpreting the microstructural and functional nature of the findings is limited.”
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“Thus, it is possible that the increase in gray matter volumes in the PFC reported here is associated with the mothers’ adaptation to orchestrate a new and increased repertoire of complex interactive behaviors with infants during the early postpartum.”
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“For example, the amount of experience interacting with their pups was correlated with enhanced c-fos expression and cortical representation in the hypothalamus (MPOA), basolateral amygdala, parietal cortex and prefrontal cortex of rat mothers”
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- Not checked yetcites Featherstone et al., 2000
- Not checked yetcites Fleming & Korsmit, 1996
- Not checked yetcites Kinsley et al., 1999
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“The ventral pallidum, a part of the globus pallidus, receives inputs from substantia nigra and regulates motor activities and behavioral reactivity”
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- Not checked yetcites Nestler, 2001
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“Second, although our finding suggest that experience with infants during the first few months is associated with structural development in brain areas that are important for parental motivation and behaviors, the causal directionality is not clear.”
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“Parenting experience (primiparous = −0.5; multiparous = 0.5) and scan interval were included as a control variable.”
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“although the findings are in accord with animal literature”
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“Animal studies have shown that increased interactions with pups over time during the early postpartum period lead to structural changes in the maternal brain.”
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- Not checked yetcites Featherstone et al., 2000
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“Finally, amygdala activations has been found to be important for maternal behaviors in rodents and nonhuman primates”
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- Not checked yetcites Kling & Steklis, 1976
- Not checked yetcites Sheehan et al., 2001
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“Also, we measure maternal behaviors based on mothers’ subjective reports.”
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“Structural reorganization in the MPOA was also found to be sensitive to postpartum experience; the increased amount of interactions with pups was associated with greater density in MPOA in rat mothers”
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- Not checked yetcites Featherstone et al., 2000
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“For example, lesion studies have shown that the medial preoptic areas (MPOA), located in the rostral hypothalamus, and its connections with the mesolimbic dopamine system for reward processing play a critical role in maternal motivation”
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- Not checked yetcites Numan & Insel, 2003
- Not checked yetcites Swain et al., 2004
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“Hypothalamus and globus pallidus have previously been implicated in maternal responses to infant stimuli in humans”
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- Not checked yetcites Bartels & Zeki, 2004
- Not checked yetcites Lorberbaum et al., 2002
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“The thalamus, parietal cortex, and brainstem also serve important functions for the processing of infant-related sometosensory information, such as smell, touch, and vocalizations”
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- Not checked yetcites Xerri, Stern, & Merzenich, 1994
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“Cronbach’s alpha value for the reliability was .78 for positive thoughts on baby, and .85 for positive thoughts on parenting.”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Methods > Mothers’ Subjective Perception on Parenting and Baby
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“Moreover, these changes in the parietal cortex only occurred when mothers interacted with their pups but not when they were only exposed to the pups’ smells or sounds”
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- Not checked yetcites Fleming & Korsmit, 1996
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“Other factors such as changes in menstrual cycles (Protopopescu et al., 2008) or in hydration, weight and nutritional status (Castro-Fornieles et al., 2009; Raji et al., 2010) may also produce alterations in the brain structure.”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Protopopescu et al., 2008
- Not checked yetcites Castro-Fornieles et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Raji et al., 2010
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“Afonso and colleagues (2007) found that mother rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions exhibited deficits in a certain maternal behaviors such as pup retrievals and licking behavior, but not in nest building or pup mouthing.”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Discussion
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“Animal studies demonstrate that hormones including estrogen, oxytocin, and prolactin act in several brain areas to activate maternal behaviors in response to infant-related stimuli (Pedersen, Caldwell, Peterson, Walker, & Mason, 1992; Wamboldt & Insel, 1987) and changes in these hormones during the early postpartum period affect anatomical changes (Rosenblatt, 2002).”
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“greater activations in frontal regions including superior and middle frontal gyrus (BA 9, 10) and medial frontal guys (BA8) have been found in almost every fMRI study of human mothers’ responses to infant stimuli”
§ The Plasticity of Human Maternal Brain: Longitudinal Changes in Brain Anatomy During the Early Postpartum Period > Discussion
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The hypothesis that similar structural changes occur in the brain of human mothers during the early postpartum period has not been rigorously tested in human mothers yet.
“However, this hypothesis has not been rigorously tested in human mothers yet.”
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The sample of healthy mothers of healthy infants living in supportive environments is representative of normative human mothers.
“our findings on the plasticity of the parental brain demonstrate normative changes among human mothers since the sample included healthy mothers of healthy infants who lived in supportive environments.”
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“Given data from human (Kim et al., 2010) and animal (Olazábal et al., 2013) studies that there is significant maternal neurobiological reorganization during the postpartum period”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R., Wang, X., & Swain, J. E.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Anna Freud Centre (GB)
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Venue
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 695-700
- ISSN
- 0735-7044 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0084
- PMC
- PMC4318549
- OpenAlex
- W2056013081
- Semantic Scholar
- 996106f68fbd3825c0c374603813bf36b4711121
- Cited by
- 440
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 23.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Cornell University
- US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2005–273)
- Institute for the Study of Unlimited Love
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- National Institute of Mental Health (K05MH076273)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (5K05DA020091)
- Associates of the Yale Child Study Center
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- maternal brain, postpartum period, gray matter volume, neuroplasticity, maternal behavior, prefrontal cortex, parietal lobe, midbrain, hypothalamus, amygdala, substantia nigra, maternal motivation, longitudinal brain changes
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Maternal Behavior, Neuronal Plasticity, Nerve Fibers, Unmyelinated, Postpartum Period
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