sleep deprivation that might be affecting attention and memory processes in the brain.”In a new study testing the prevalence of “mommy brain,” Miller used a revised version of the Attention Network Test (ANT), called the ANT-R, to compare reaction times among 60 mothers, all of whom were at least one year postpartum, as well as 70 women who were not mothers.The study’s findings show that mothers performed equally as well — or better — compared with women who had never been pregnant or had children.“For this particular study, we recruited moms who were past that first year postpartum because we wanted to see the long-term effects of maternity,” Miller explained. “Overall, moms did not have significantly different attention than non-mothers,.
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