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New Fathers Experience Brain Changes, Study Finds

  • When men become parents, many changes in their lives — less sleep and more time devoted to caring for their children.
  • Researchers scanned the brains of new fathers to discover and study those changes after suspecting this would be the case and seeing evidence from animal studies that new fatherhood would be one of the times when a man’s brain would show enhanced neuroplasticity.
  • The human brain changes at various times, including in early childhood and adolescence.
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