Dr. Edna Lekgabe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You're for real.
Like it's accurate.
But 2016 was like another big study, 25 women, landmark study published in Nature, huge.
It was like big news.
where the study looks at women before and after, and then again what they found was changes.
And the areas of the brain that change is where the emotional regulation is, so women are a bit more sensitive for their baby.
Empathy changes.
Through the roof.
Empathy changes.
Social cognition.
I don't know if you guys know what social cognition is.
Correct.
It's the area of our brain, which is a network.
It's not like one little spot.
It's like a whole network where it's where we perceive, interpret and respond to social cues.
So you're able to read a room and be able to read your baby.
and know what your baby's up to before anyone else knows.
You can read things.
And those areas get upgraded, right?
There's this thing called synaptic pruning that happens.