Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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Yeah, yeah.
Like maybe, I think it was like a study of like six women.
When do you think MRIs came around?
1970s.
I could have said 1973 again.
Yeah, close around there.
MRIs were, I mean, women have been, you know, birthing 300,000 years, but we didn't scan their brains.
Of course, there was no MRIs.
But from 1970, I don't know when it was, why haven't we been scanning brains of women?
We haven't.
And in 2009, there was a group of scientists in Yale who studied it, and they were like, let's have a look at what's happening.
We'll scan a bunch of women before pregnancy because they saw it in mice.
Mice change.
We know something.
Maybe the brain's changing.
And they scanned women before pregnancy and postpartum, and there were some changes.
There was structural changes, and there was functional, like as in it lit differently, it looked different, and the chemistry was different.
Totally.
So exactly that.
So they put a pin in it, 2009.