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A growing body of neuroscience research reveals that pregnancy triggers the most dramatic brain remodeling in adult life, affecting up to 94% of grey matter — changes that are not deficits but adaptive renovations preparing parents for caregiving. These findings are reframing "mom brain" from a punchline into a window on neural plasticity, while also raising critical questions about postpartum mental health and how parenthood reshapes both birthing and non-birthing parents' brains.