Scientists are studying what pregnancy does to the brain and how it does so, shedding light on a long-understudied area of neuroscience.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neuroscience researcher Liz Chrastil (pictured with her child) hopes her brain scans and other studies will help identify how the ...

A new study has given insights into placental contractions during pregnancy, using MRI imaging to show how placental and uterine contractions can be distinguished, and how frequent and long lasting ...

Pregnancy appears to trigger a kind of “reorganization” of an expecting mother’s brain, new research suggests. MRI images taken of a 38-year-old woman throughout her pregnancy show the condition ...