AR&D Symposium 2026On June 4th, 2026, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute is organizing its annual symposium with the topic of “The Birth Crash: Reproduction in an Age of Demographic Change”
Changes in the brain of women during a second pregnancyA second pregnancy changes women's brains in the same way as a first pregnancy, but in a different way than the first time. This is according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC, published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The findings of Elseline Hoekzema and her colleagues show that a second pregnancy uniquely changes a woman’s brain, entailing both convergent and distinct neural transformations.
