TY - JOUR T1 - Population-based neuroimaging reveals traces of childbirth in the maternal brain JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/650952 SP - 650952 AU - Ann-Marie G. de Lange AU - Tobias kaufmann AU - Dennis van der Meer AU - Luigi Maglanoc AU - Dag Alnæs AU - Torgeir Moberget AU - Gwenaëlle Douaud AU - Ole A. Andreassen AU - Lars T. Westlye Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/27/650952.abstract N2 - Pregnancy and childbirth involve maternal brain adaptations that promote attachment to and protection of the newborn. Using brain imaging and machine learning, we provide evidence for a positive relationship between number of childbirths and a ‘younger-looking’ brain in 12,021 women, which could not be explained by common genetic variation. The findings demonstrate that parity can be linked to brain health later in life. ER -