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Yale researcher outlines Promise Study tracking brain changes across pregnancy and early parenthood
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Helena Rutherford, director of the Before and After Baby Lab at Yale, described the Promise Study on the Connecticut Paid Leave podcast: researchers measure maternal brain responses in the third trimester and again at 4, 8 and 15 months postpartum and run local outreach including clothing drives.
Helena Rutherford, director of the Before and After Baby Lab at Yale University’s Child Study Center, told the Connecticut Paid Leave podcast that the lab’s Promise Study measures changes in maternal brain activity during the third trimester and again at roughly 4, 8 and 15 months after birth.
“We do that by having parents wear… a hair cap; within the cap itself there’s sponges. And those sponges help us detect activity from the brain,” Rutherford…
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