Abstract #0895

Serial Structural Imaging in the Postpartum Period Reveals Increases and Decreases in Regional Brain Volumes Following Childbirth

Derek K. Jones¹, Tim Vivian-Griffiths¹, C John Evans¹, Nicholas Lange²

¹CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Caerdydd, United Kingdom; ²Neurostatistics Laboratory,Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

This study performed serial structural MRI on a cohort of mothers in the early postpartum period. Compared to matched controls, there were both increases and decreases in brain volume in the new mothers over time - but not in the matched controls.