Dr. Laura Pritschet, PhD

Episode 2: It’s not “Mommy Brain”–How Hormones during Pregnancy prepare the brain for Parenting

Dr. Pritschet is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

A Sampling of her work:

Neuroanatomical Changes Observed Over the Course of a Pregnancy in Nature Neuroscience, Sept 2024

The Menstrual Cycle Modulates Whole Brain Turbulent Dynamics in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Dec 2021

Functional Reorganization of Brain networks across the Human Menstrual Cycle in Neuroimage, Oct 2020