I want to ask you about another change in our brains, which we touched on briefly.

But it's this theory of mind, so this compassion, because I've heard it described that when we become parents, we go from thinking about me more to we.

And that is because this area in our brain responsible for compassion

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Is that right?

Yeah, so it's a tricky thing.

The word I'm getting stuck on is bigger

because it's actually like the opposite,

which is remarkable.

So their theory of mind is really like a network of brain regions.

It's not one area,

but the idea is the volume shrinks across those brain regions.

So there was some very well-known studies that came out a few years ago and have been built

on in the years since that looked at the brains of women before they were ever pregnant.

And then right after they had a baby and two years postpartum and now six years postpartum.

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