Chelsea Conaboy, MOTHER BRAIN: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

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🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Guest host Allison Pataki interviews health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy about her groundbreaking and myth-busting new book Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood. Chelsea analyzes the postpartum experience–a time of distress, adaptation, and powerful neurological and hormonal shifts for parents. She also dismantles the dangerous myth of maternal instinct and outlines the sociopolitical areas that desperately need reform in the United States. Finally, she describes her research and writing process and shares her best advice for aspiring authors.

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1:02.6	Chelsea Connoboy is the author of Mother Brain, How Neuroscience is Rewriding the Story of Motherhood. This is one of our guest-hosted episodes by Alison Bataki. Chelsea is a journalist
1:08.1	specializing in personal and public health. She was part of the Boston Globe's prize winning team for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing,
1:14.6	and more recently has worked as a magazine writer with bylines at Mother Jones, Politico,
1:19.2	The Week, the Boston Globe magazine, and others.
1:21.9	She lives in Maine with her husband, their two young sons, and her own changing maternal brain.
1:26.7	Hello, everybody, Alison Pataki here, and I am with Chelsea Connoboy, author of Mother Brain,
1:33.7	how neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood. Chelsea, thank you for chatting today.
1:40.3	Thank you so much for having me. Oh, my goodness. Well, congratulations on this book on Mother Brain. I know as a mother of three myself, I found it to be very, very valuable. And I know that's the case for many others. Can you tell us about this book and why you wrote it and how you wrote it?
1:58.5	Yeah. This book really started with my own experience of
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