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AP22362 What happens when you become a father for the first time? Well, a lot to be truthful. First, life is over, as you know it. You’re a dad now and have a tone of responsibility. But what happens to you as a human when you become a new father? You change, yes well of course you change there is a new baby in the house, but new research reveals that you really change. Pilyoung Kim from the University of Denver and Yale wanted to know how new fathers changed. In his experiment he scanned 16 new proud dad’s, the first scans where done at two to four weeks of the babies age and again at twelve and sixteen weeks of age. The scans revealed that the father’s brain actually changed in size. Prior research has shown functional changes in new fathers and now this new research has shown structural changes in the brain. The scans revealed that the gray matter increased in volume in several regions of the brain. What does this mean? They’re still working on that, but I think I might know a little about why we change. I remember when my first child was born, a month before he was born you couldn’t wake my with a stick of dynamite if I was tired, the day he came home I could be asleep and would wake if you dropped a pin. I think becoming a new father changes much more than just your brain.

Kim, P., University of Denver and Yale

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AP22362

What happens when you become a father for the first time? Well, a lot to be truthful. First, life is over, as you know it. You’re a dad now and have a tone of responsibility. But what happens to you as a human when you become a new father? You change, yes well of course you change there is a new baby in the house, but new research reveals that you really change. Pilyoung Kim from the University of Denver and Yale wanted to know how new fathers changed. In his experiment he scanned 16 new proud dad’s, the first scans where done at two to four weeks of the babies age and again at twelve and sixteen weeks of age. The scans revealed that the father’s brain actually changed in size. Prior research has shown functional changes in new fathers and now this new research has shown structural changes in the brain. The scans revealed that the gray matter increased in volume in several regions of the brain. What does this mean? They’re still working on that, but I think I might know a little about why we change. I remember when my first child was born, a month before he was born you couldn’t wake my with a stick of dynamite if I was tired, the day he came home I could be asleep and would wake if you dropped a pin. I think becoming a new father changes much more than just your brain.

Kim, P., University of Denver and Yale

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