our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed USC psychologist Darby Saxbe explains what her lab found when she scanned new fathers' brains — gray matter loss, falling testosterone, and why the men who did the most caregiving changed the most. Darby Saxbe, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and tenured full professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the transition to parenthood, particularly the neural[…] Darby Saxbe, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and tenured full professor of psychology at the University of Southern California.
The director of Donnie Darko on why the film is so misunderstood Becoming a father physically changes a man's brain — and the more caregiving he does, the more it changes. USC psychologist Darby Saxbe, author of Dad Brain, explains what that means for dads, partners, and anyone deciding whether to have kids. Great parents are made, not born: the new science of dad brain Darby Saxbe in conversation with Marvin Liyanage | Curiosity Lab | Big Think Conversations Darby Saxbe: In 1965, the average was about 16 minutes a day.
Now dads report that they spend over an hour a day in childcare. My lab found that dads'brain change was tied to their parenting involvement. Marvin Liyanage:What are the differences we would see on those two brain scans?
Darby Saxbe:This finding makes lots of people nervous. The brain would likely look a little bit smaller. In new dads, the risk of having clinically significant depression is about double the risk for men in the general population.
This idea that dads just don't have an innate ability to become good parents. The big takeaway of my book, I think, is, you know, great parents are made, not born. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marvin Liyanage: Today, I'm talking to Dr. She's a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, and she wrote a book called Dad Brain.
How is being a dad different today than it was 50 years ago? Darby Saxbe: So it's very different in terms of the amount of day-to-day caregiving that dads are doing. We're seeing that dads are spending a lot more time in child care.
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