Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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The basal ganglia is involved in reward and motivation.
That's where our motivation and our behavior sit, right?
This is what I do.
And thalamus is the other area that changes, sleep-wake cycle.
It becomes quite light, so you're able to wake up for the baby.
So there's deeper structures that are changing.
There's surface structures where the information highway passes.
There's so much restructuring happening.
All of that's happening all at once.
So women feel like...
A bit different.
Yeah.
A bit different.
Memory's a bit off because it's offline because it's being rewired.
And memory is really, learning is all about the baby.
When the baby arrives, nothing else matters.
So the focus just becomes all about the baby.
Biology.
I call it a developmental earthquake.
I read it somewhere and I was like, oh my God, that's exactly it.