Your favourite episode of 2024

What happens to the brain during pregnancy?

It is the first Monday of 2025 - wild! We hope you had a restful end to 2024. We are taking a little winter break and will be back in the Spring with new episodes, collaborations, and info on our next live event.

In this newsletter, we’re bringing you a clip from our most listened-to episode this year: What happens to the brain during pregnancy?

Dr Laura Pritschet explains how she got into studying the brain during pregnancy and her alarm to learn that female brains were deemed as “too messy” to study:

Thank you to everyone who listened, messaged us, and sent us questions for the experts in 2024! Super chuffed with our Spotify wrapped - it has been so cool to see our little community grow!

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