HAVING A CHILD CAN CAUSE YOUR BRAIN TO SHRINK?

A man’s brain can shrink by around 1% when he becomes a father. I’ve seen how much fatherhood can change a man’s life. I had no idea how much it was changing his brain too. So I sat down with Dr Darby Saxbe. Darby is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California and one of the few researchers in the world who has tracked what happens to men’s brains as they transition into fatherhood. Her research revealed something I had never heard before: becoming a dad literally rewires your brain. And the more involved a father is, the more pronounced those physical changes can be. We