Article: FED: Pregnant women s fuzziness may be all in the mind


AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-1999
FED: Pregnant women s fuzziness may be all in the mind

By Rada Rouse, National Medical Correspondent

BRISBANE, Feb 2 AAP - Pregnant women do not go "soft in the head", some of them merely
think they do, new research shows.

Charles Sturt University studies comparing pregnant women and women who have never had
children found that the two groups perform equally well in objective memory tests.

The reasons why new and expectant mothers are much more likely to say they suffer
absent-mindedness needs further research, senior psychology lecturer Dr Paul Casey said.

He stressed that women's perception that pregnancy affects their mind were not ...

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