Motherhood makes moms brighter that contradicts the earlier belief that motherhood actually dims the brainpower.

Brains of 19 new moms were assessed by a study and their behavior and activities were also looked at using scans to understand how they changed between two weeks and four months after having a baby.

Researchers noted that certain part of the brain increased in this period and it was also noted that moms who were more loving had greater increases in this part.

It could however not be stated if these changes altered behavior and intelligence as women’s intelligence was not assessed in this study. And no women without children were looked at in this study which means that a comparison between women who have babies and women who do not could be made when it came to their intelligence.

The study was carried out by researchers from Yale University School of Medicine and other research centers in the US and Israel.

Brains of mothers up to four months after having a baby were assessed taking their structural changes in consideration.

After birth there are structural changes in animals that occur in the brain. And these changes in some way decide the maternal behavior.