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'Baby brain' may be more about mood than memory

Women with depressive symptoms in pregnancy and early motherhood consistently reported feeling foggy and forgetful, yet objective tests of memory and attention rarely backed those complaints up. The feeling of impairment tracked mood far more reliably than any measurable decline did.

For you: If pregnancy or new motherhood has you feeling mentally foggy, worth knowing that objective testing mostly finds the brain holding up, and that persistent low mood is the thing most reliably tied to feeling worse.

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