The Painful Psychological Cost Of Becoming A Dad - Darby Saxbe - #1129

Jul 27, 2026 · 1h 34m

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0:19Most people are familiar with mum brain, but you found that dad's brains go through a bunch of changes too.

0:25Exactly.

0:26Yeah, so I've been looking at new fathers in my lab over the last decade plus.

0:31We've scanned men when they're midway through their partner's pregnancy and then again after they have their first child.

0:38And we find that the brain, and I should caveat, this is not a bad thing, loses gray matter volume across that transition to fatherhood.

0:47So the patterns look similar to those that have been observed in moms and they seem to be of smaller magnitude.

0:54They're more variable and they're more tied to dad's parenting experience.

0:59How does it differ from mumbrain?

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