A Mother's Brain

ENDORSEMENTS

“Dr. Susana Carmona has been a pioneer in shaping our understanding of the maternal brain. Her research has brought scientific rigor to a topic too often dismissed or misunderstood. In this timely and compelling book, she shares a decade of groundbreaking discoveries that illuminate how motherhood reshapes the brain—with clarity, nuance, and care.”
—Lisa Mosconi, PhD, Director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Women’s Brain Initiative, NYT bestselling author of The Menopause Brain and The XX Brain

“As a long-term neuroscientist, and a brand-new grandfather, I was absorbed by A Mother’s Brain. Beyond the value of her lucid writing, she has provided parents and health professionals with something that has been strangely missing—a authoritative, scientific overview of what goes on in the brain at this crucial time in the lives of mothers and their babies.”
—Joseph LeDoux, New York University, author of Anxious and Starting Over

“A powerful, awe-inspiring, beautiful book. A Mother’s Brain is fascinating, thrilling, consoling and accessible, a groundbreaking work by a pioneering scientist at the cutting-edge of matrescence research. Carmona shows us how, as a society, we need to honor the intensity of pregnancy, birth and new motherhood, rather than dismiss it. A must read for all.”
—Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

“Susana Carmona is a tour-de-force… [Her] groundbreaking work tackles fundamental questions about the maternal brain, discoveries that are poised to deepen our basic understanding of the human brain and its stunning capacity for plasticity in adulthood.”
—Dr. Emily Jacobs, director of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara

“As a mother, a scientist, and a woman, I am happy to know now that during my pregnancy, my brain changed as much as it did during my adolescence, and that its changes helped me bond more deeply with my daughter… Susana correctly reminds us that motherhood isn’t just a physical transformation. It’s a journey that goes to our very cores… She writes with erudition, intimacy, and rigor, drawing on her own experience and foundation of scientific expertise as she accompanies us on the voyage that gives humanity life.”
—Nazareth Castellanos, Chair of Cognitive Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, previously researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London