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Study: Parenting Rewires Male Brain

You do not have to be a mother to 'mother' a child. The maternal instinct ‒ long associated only with females ‒ is actually developed in the brain of any person who decides to become a parent. According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, caring for a child influences a father’s brain by rewiring some circuits to resemble that of a mother. Researchers in Israel followed first-time parents in two types of households ‒...


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