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How fatherhood changes brain biology and body shape
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People’s brains are not fixed and remain malleable over the course of their lives, reorganising as they mature and engage in new experiences.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
SINGAPORE – People often talk about how fathers shape their children’s lives, but what if children also reshape their dads, more specifically their brains?
Darby Saxbe, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, has found that scans of first-time fathers’ brains show a reduction in grey matter volume within the first year after their babies are born.