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.