2024
Servin-Barthet, C., Martínez-García, M., Paternina-Die, M. et al. (2024) Pregnancy entails a U-shaped trajectory in human brain structure linked to hormones and maternal attachment. Nat Commun 16, 730 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55830-0
Paternina-Die, M., Martínez-García, M., Martín de Blas, D., Hoekzema, E., Barba-Müller, E., Vilarroya, O., & Carmona, S. (2024). Women’s neuroplasticity during gestation, childbirth, and postpartum. Nature Neuroscience, 27(3), 319–327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01513-2
Fernández-Pena, A., Navas-Sánchez, F. J., de Blas, D. M., Marcos-Vidal, L., Desco, M., & Carmona, S. (2024). Previous pregnancies might mitigate cortical brain differences associated with surgical menopause. Human Brain Mapping, 45(1), e26538. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26538
2023
Servin-Barthet, C., Martínez-García, M., Pretus, C., Paternina-Die, M., Soler, A., Khymenets, O., Pozo, O., Leuner, B., Vilarroya, O., & Carmona, S. (2023). The transition to motherhood: Linking hormones, brain, and behavior. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(10), 605–619. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-023-00733-6
Martínez-García, M., Paternina-Die, M., Cardenas, S. I., Vilarroya, O., Desco, M., Carmona, S., & Saxbe, D. E. (2023). First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions: Evidence from two international samples. Cerebral Cortex, 33(7), 4156–4163. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac333
2021
Cómitre-Mariano, B., Martínez-García, M., García-Gálvez, B., Paternina-Die, M., Desco, M., Carmona, S., & Gómez-Gaviro, M. V. (2021). Feto-maternal microchimerism: Memories from pregnancy. iScience, 25(1), 103664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103664
Martínez-García, M., Paternina-Die, M., Desco, M., Vilarroya, O., & Carmona, S. (2021). Characterizing the brain structural adaptations across the motherhood transition. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, 2, 742775. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2021.742775
2020
Paternina-Die, M., Martínez-García, M., Pretus, C., Hoekzema, E., Barba-Müller, E., Martín de Blas, D., Pozzobon, C., Ballesteros, A., Vilarroya, O., Desco, M., & Carmona, S. (2020). The paternal transition entails neuroanatomic adaptations that are associated with the father’s brain response to his infant cues. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1(1), tgaa082. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa082
