What is BeMother?
BeMother is a project of the UAB, the IMIM and the IISGM, directed by Dr. Òscar Vilarroya, with funding from the European Research Council (ERC) and the La Caixa Foundation.
In our research, we hypothesized that pregnancy-related morphological brain changes may confer an adaptive advantage to motherhood in several ways. For example, facilitating a mother’s ability to recognize her baby’s needs, promoting the mother-baby bond and easily detecting social stimuli that signal potential threats.
Currently, we are also interested in learning about the brain changes that take place in non-pregnant mothers in their transition to motherhood.
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Participants in the project
154
Women who have achieved pregnancy
118
Women who have already had their first baby
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The project
BeMother has used several methods for the study. Saliva and urine samples to evaluate hormones among other metabolomic measurements, clinical and neuropsychological evaluations to evaluate various aspects of the brain and relate it to postpartum mental disorders and magnetic resonance to obtain brain images of maximum resolution.
The study consists of 5-6 sessions held at the facilities of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and we have had many participants!
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