Skip To Main Content
Sarah Hellewell on Muck Rack

Sarah Hellewell

As seen in: G1 Globo, Bangalore Mirror, Love Lives, MSN South Africa, The Independent (UK), Yahoo News Australia, ABC News (Australia), Frontiers, MDPI, NDTV and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Sarah

Contact Sarah, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Is 'baby brain' real? A neuroscientist explains

|
By Sarah Hellewell, Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Medical Xpress Verified
Credit: Sarah Chai from Pexels You walk into the kitchen and forget why you're there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence. If you've recently had a baby, you might blame all this on "baby brain"—that foggy, forgetful feeling so many new mothers describe. But is "baby brain" real? Does the brain really change during pregnancy? And if so, how is all this related to how new mothers think?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Is ‘baby brain’ real? A neuroscientist explains

|
By Sarah Hellewell
| The Conversation Verified
You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence. If you’ve recently had a baby, you might blame all this on “baby brain” – that foggy, forgetful feeling so many new mothers describe. But is “baby brain” real? Does the brain really change during pregnancy? And if so, how’s all this related to how new mothers think?
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (5) Issue with article?

Is ‘baby brain’ real? A neuroscientist explains

|
By Sarah Hellewell
| Yahoo News Australia Verified
Sarah Hellewell, Curtin University Wed 17 June 2026 at 8:12 pm UTC 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. You put the milk in the pantry and the keys in the fridge. You lose your train of thought halfway through a sentence. If you’ve recently had a baby, you might blame all this on “baby brain” – that foggy, forgetful feeling so many new mothers describe. But is “baby brain” real?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 176 licensed articles (251 Total)