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Sarah McKay
Dad brain: the neurobiology of fatherhood
I’m often asked whether “baby brain” happens to dads, too. The answer is yes, although the physiology and ...
How the pill impacts adolescent mental health.
This week, I’m starting with the teenage brain and the pill. It’s a topic that is often discussed ...
Baby Brain is not a brain problem: evidence
The Australian media picked up a new Monash Uni study on “Baby Brain” this week, and I've been commenting both ...
Singing and dancing keep your brain young
I’m writing this in the week leading up to opening night for my local community theatre production of ...
What babies’ brains might teach us about Alzheimer’s disease.
This week, I was stopped in my tracks (well, to be honest, it stopped my scroll!) by a ...
A new way of thinking about brain fog.
It’s easy to talk about midlife or menopausal brain fog as if there must be one clear cause ...
Women were in the neuroscience lab. Just not in the data
This week, I spoke at an International Women’s Day event about women’s brain health. I began by pointing ...
Adding matrescence to the dictionary.
If you follow me on social media, you'll see I've been proudly part of a new global campaign ...
Menopause does NOT shrink your brain
This week, I was once again caught up in a news storm over the latest misleading headlines following ...
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This year, I’ve shared 43 editions of my neuroscience and women's brain health micro-briefings with you all. These ...
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