DOAC Dr Darby Saxbe HAVING A BABY SHRINKS YOUR BRAIN?

A man’s brain actually shrinks when he becomes a dad? Research shows that a man's brain shrinks when he becomes a father. Yes. In fathers, the brain is actually losing grey matter volume. Of the brain. The parts of the brain that are shrinking the most are in the mentalizing network. That's that helps understand people's feelings and intentions. And you also volume reduction in the visual areas, which is which is for when you understand an infant's what kinds of emotions it's trying to tell you. Dads are changing the top layer, the cortex, controls our higher thinking, reasoning, functioning. The way that you described the part that the man loses when they become a father, seem like empathy. No. They're actually improving empathy because they're efficient processors of social information. The fact the biggest are in what we call mentalizing cognition networks. Important to use parents. You said that section shrunk because becoming Oh. It's losing extra and you're a superhighway for that specific information. A bit. I imagined brain would grow at. This case actually and I know feels like to wrap but does that is working and it's faster. Sort of the debris and you're streamlined in how information. Is there a between how hands the father is amount that of shrinkage that happens in their brain? Yeah. Found that. So when dad's birth bonded to unborn when they wanted and when three birth babies they felt and bonded to them more time care of their babies. They had more profound shrinkage. This seems contention shrinkage adaptive and it's men's parenthood.