A.S.K. Chelsea Conaboy
Your changing parental brain: Neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood. What does it mean for our individual experiences—as caregivers to our particular children—and for the policies and programs that support families? Chelsea Conaboy is a long time journalist with a focus on health and science. Her first book, Mother Brain (Holt 2022), was published with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program for the Public Understanding of Science, Technology and Economics. She explores parenthood as a distinct developmental stage of life, as fundamentally transformative as adolescence, and how that transformation—with all its upheaval and adaptation—shapes us as individuals and as a society. She will delve into the central themes of Mother Brain, which has been called "a game-changer" and "a generous, engaging, deeply researched book that will change the way you think about your own parents, your children, and yourself.”
