Mommy Brain Revisited
Episodes
62. Midwifery Student's Q&A about the Maternal Brain
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited, I answer thoughtful and candid questions submitted by midwifery students, our next generation of birth worke...
61. SSRIs and Pregnancy
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited, Dr Tim Oberlander and I briefly discuss SSRI use in pregnancy and the importance of focusing on maternal men...
60. Psychedelics Postpartum
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Danielle S. Stolzenberg, Ph.D. , Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,...
59. Probiotics and the Maternal Brain
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of Mommy Brain Revisited! In this episode, I’m joined by Prof. Joseph Lonstein (Michigan State University) to talk about ...
58. Maternal Affect and Mother-Offspring Dynamics
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited, I’m joined by Dr. Mariana Pereira, an Associate Professor at UMass. We dive into the maternal affective st...
57. Prolactin and Thermoregulation in Pregnancy
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnancy isn’t just about a baby bump—it’s also a massive hormonal and physiological shift, including how the body regulates temperature.In thi...
56. Postpartum Brain Changes
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Prof Dr Natalya Chechko, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy at Aachen University. We ta...
55. Emotion Regulation and the Maternal Brain
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Katie Haigler, a graduate student at Penn State, about her research detailing how the maternal br...
54. Caregiving and the Paternal Brain
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Prof Wendy Saltzman, who is in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at th...
53. Brain Changes Across Pregnancy
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Dr Laura Pritschet about her recent research detailing how the brain changes across pregnancy. It’s a fascinating study!...
52. Oxytocin and Baby Cries
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited, I talk with Dr Silvana Valtcheva, a Junior Group Leader at University of Cologne in the Faculty of Medicine,...
51. Dad Brain
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited, I talk with Dr Darby Saxbe, Professor of Psychology at USC Dornslife. We talk about her recent work on how ...
50. Birth and the Brain
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Susana Carmona, Research Scientist at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañ...
49. Nesting and Neurons
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Nicolas Renier, the Team Leader of the Laboratory of Structural Plasticity at the Paris Brain ...
48. Growing a Social Brain
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Shir Atzil an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discuss her recent...
47. Bonding with Bump: Interoception and Pregnancy
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Catherine Preston, an Associate Professor at the University of York. We talk about body sensat...
46. A Model of Perinatal Mental Illness
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Danielle Stolzenberg, an Associate Professor at UC Davis, about the nonhormonal basis of paren...
45. Mom Power
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Maria Muzik and Dr. Katherine Rosenblum about Mom Power, a parenting intervention they develop...
44. Neural Remodeling during Pregnancy
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Jonny Kohl, Group Leader, State-Dependent Neural Processing Laboratory, The Francis Crick Inst...
43. Attachment and Neural Synchrony
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Pascal Vrticka, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Es...
42. Zuranolone
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Kristina M. Deligiannidis, MD, Professor, Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institut...
41. Fatherhood, Neurosteroids, and Fish
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Devaleena Pradhan, Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and Physiology at Ida...
40. Mindfulness and the Parental Brain
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Tara Chaplin, Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, USA. We talk abou...
39. Oxytocin Neurons and Alloparenting
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Robert Froemke, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Skirball Pr...
38. Mommy Brain in the USA
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Valerie Miller, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Purdue University. We talk about her recent re...
37. Pregnancy and the Brain 2.0
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Elseline Hoekzema, Assistant Professor, Adult Psychiatry and Amsterdam Neuroscience at Amster...
36. It's Time To Rebrand 'Mommy Brain'
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I read our viewpoint in JAMA Neurology titled "It's time to rebrand 'Mommy Brain'" published Feb 6, 2023 and ...
35. Child Maltreatment and the Maternal Brain
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Margaret Bublitz, a Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human B...
34. After the Storm
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited talk with Emma Jane Unsworth, British writer and bestselling author. We talk about her memoir After the Storm...
33. The Perfect Storm: Understanding Perinatal Mental Illness
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Prof Carmine Pariante, a psychiatrist and professor at King's College London. This episode is par...
32. Milking It For All It's Worth
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Amanda Kentner a Full Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in t...
31. Memory Expertise in Pregnancy?
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Bridget Callaghan, an Assistant Professor at UCLA, about recent research she’s done on memo...
30. Adult-Infant Brain Synchrony and the Importance of Maternal Cues
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Ruth Feldman, the Simms-Mann Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience at the Interdisci...
29. Fatherhood and the Brain
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. James Rilling a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Psychiatry ...
28. Motherhood and Minding Your Microbes
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Siobhain O’Mahony a Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland. We talk about the ...
27. Motherhood and Brain Aging
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Ann-Marie de Lange a Maitre-Assistant Ambizione FNS (Assistant Professor) at the Centre for R...
26. Sociocultural Stress and Maternal Mental Health
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Marquette...
25. Brain Activity from Pregnancy to Postpartum
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Helena Rutherford an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center in the USA. We talk a...
24. Mom-Baby Neural Synchrony
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Victoria Leong an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Si...
23. Sleep and Motherhood
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Katherine M. Sharkey, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry & Human Behavior a...
22. Postpartum Depression and the Amygdala
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Aya Dudin, a PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, supervised by Dr. Geoffrey Hall, at McMaster Universi...
21. Oxytocin and Bonding
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Larry Young, a William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Schoo...
20. The Neurobiology of Postpartum Psychosis
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Prof Paola Dazzan, Professor of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Vice Dean (International) at the Insti...
19. The Neurons Essential For Parenting
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University and I...
18. Dopamine in the Postpartum
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Millie Rincón-Cortés, a Research Assistant Professor in Department of Neuroscience at the Un...
17. Stress and the Maternal Brain
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Pilyoung Kim, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Denv...
16. Immune Changes in the Maternal Brain
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Benedetta Leuner who is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of...
15. Enduring Effects of Parenting on the Brain
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Winnie Orchard, a PhD candidate at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and Monash Bi...
14. Opioid Use and the Maternal Brain
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr James Swain, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the Department of ...
13. Pregnancy and the Brain
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Elseline Hoekzema, a senior neuroscientist at the Brain & Development Research Center, Lei...
12. Partner Loss and the Maternal Brain
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Oliver Bosch, Professor in the Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine at the University ...
11. Maternal Experience and the Ageing Maternal Brain
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Liisa Galea, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain Health at The Uni...
10. TIDA Neurons and Lactation: A focus on network activity
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Christian Broberger, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm ...
9. Postpartum Attention: An important component of Mommy Brain
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Valerie Miller, MA, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University in the...
8. Prolactin and the Maternal Brain: So much more than for lactation!
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Professor Dave Grattan the Director of the Centre of Neuroendocrinology, Department of Anatomy, U...
7. Fatherhood and the Hippocampus: Importance of interacting with kids
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Erica Glasper an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Mary...
6. Matrescence and Adolescence: Which has a greater impact on the brain?
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr. Susanna Carmona from the Neuroimaging Centre in the Laboratory for Medical Imaging at the Hos...
5. Mommy Brain during Pregnancy: What does the Science Say?
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Sasha Davies a PhD Candidate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit in the School of Psychology at De...
4. Fear Memories and the Maternal Brain: More than just sex differences, motherhood matters.
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Bronwyn Graham an Associate Professor at School of Psychology at the University of New South W...
3. Roundup and Maternal Gut-Brain effects: Should we worry about glyphosate?
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Professor Thierry Charlier at the Institut de Recherche en Santé, Environnement et Travail (Irse...
2. Allopregnanolone to Zulresso: A treatment for Postpartum Depression
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Jamie Maguire an Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Graduate School of Biomedical Scie...
1. Anxiety and the Maternal Brain
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Mommy Brain Revisited I talk with Dr Joseph Lonstein a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University about...
0. Why we need to revisit Mommy Brain
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a brief introduction as to why I'm doing this podcast; Why we need to talk about what we know and what we don't know when it comes to ...