Susana Carmona

«Un libro escrito con erudición, rigor y cercanía, en el que Susana nos acompaña, desde su experiencia personal y su sólida trayectoria científica, en el viaje que da vida a la humanidad». Nazareth C

«Un libro escrito con erudición, rigor y cercanía, en el que Susana nos acompaña, desde su experiencia personal y su sólida trayectoria científica, en el viaje que da vida a la humanidad». Nazareth C

A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the authors own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does.Dispels mommy brain stereotypes and trailblazes new understanding at the core of humanity with warmth and compassion.Eighty-five percent of women experience pregnancy at some point in their lives. It is an experience enabling the very existence of our species. Yet this first step in the process of nurturing the next generation has had little serious, rigorous studyuntil now. Susana Carmonas A Mothers Brain is a landmark in ending sexual bias in womens health. Among her many initiatives, she is building a unique longitudinal database tracking how mothers brains change from preconception to several years after childbirth. Drawing on her studies of individual mothers, Carmona writes with empathy about the challenges of motherhood from the reshaping of a womans immune system and hormonal dynamics to the geography of her cortex and its plasticity. The book reveals that pregnancy triggers rapid changes in the brain, guided by hormones, that seem to nurture maternal well-being and the mother-baby bond. Some cells with the babys genetic code even cross into the mother, residing in the mothers brain for the rest of her life.

Dr Susana Carmona has been a pioneer in shaping our understanding of the maternal brain. Dr Lisa Mosconi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Menopause BrainAS FEATURED IN THE BBC DOCUMENTARY BABY BRAIN: WHATS REALLY GOING ON?85 per cent of women experience pregnancy at some point in their lives. It is a process necessary for the existence of our species. Yet the effect of this life-creating and life-altering experience on the women who undergo it has had little serious, rigorous study until now.In A Mothers Brain, neuroscientist and leading expert on the maternal brain Dr Susana Carmona draws on her cutting-edge research to demonstrate the ways in which pregnancy profoundly transforms the body, from the reshaping of a womans immune system and hormonal dynamics to the geography of her cortex and its plasticity. Tracking the rapid changes in mothers brains from preconception to several years after childbirth, Carmona explores how the brain nurtures maternal well-being and the mother-baby bond, facilitating the transition to motherhood, and reveals how some cells with the babys genetic code even cross into the mother, residing in her brain for the rest of her life.In this landmark new book, Carmona writes empathetically about the challenges of motherhood, dispels harmful baby brain stereotypes and presents a powerful argument for the end of gender bias in womens health. Evidencing that pregnancy alters the brains even more than adolescence, neuroscience, at last, supports what women already suspected: motherhood transforms us.