Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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Have you guys ever heard of the synaptic pruning?
Correct.
The scientists who published this, I met them last year and I was geeking out.
So exciting.
Yeah, you guys are like, yeah, sure.
It was amazing.
It was in Barcelona.
They have amazing names.
Oscar Villarroya, Susana Carmona, Helzwein Hoxema, like beautiful names.
But what they said was the social cognition part of the brain for mom is super lit.
So she can...
Yeah.
Super lit.
Lit, right?
And there's synaptic pruning, which means that the brain, it's a bit like, you know, they described it as rose bush being like, you know, I don't know if you have growth.
Correct.
The next season, it comes back blooming beautifully.
Not exactly the same, grown a bit differently, but blooming, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So they found in this study, they scanned women before pregnancy.