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Brain study identifies a cost of caregiving for new fathers

  • Written by Darby Saxbe, Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Brain study identifies a cost of caregiving for new fathersDads have stepped up to do more hands-on parenting over the past few decades.Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Moment via Getty Images

Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood. But researchers like me are still figuring out what...

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