HEAL presents: Lunch and Learn
Transition to Parenthood as a Window for Biopsychosocial Health in Adulthood
A conversation with Dr. Darby Saxbe
Biography:
Dr. Saxbe has devoted the past decade to studying how the journey into parenthood affects health and relationships for both parents and their children. In this talk, she will present some of her recent studies on parenting – with a focus on fathers – and how new parents undergo changes to their physical and mental health. She will highlight new research on the fathering brain, showing the brain structure changes in men followed from the prenatal into the postpartum period, and that these structural changes are associated with hormones and adjustment to parenthood. She will also emphasize the importance of this program of research for clinical intervention and public policy.