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Mom’s Many Virtues

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by Jim Cosgrove, Register Correspondent Sunday, Nov 30, 2003 1:00 PM Comment

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Motherhood not only makes females smarter, but it also makes them calmer under pressure and more courageous than females 1 who do not mother offspring, a U.S. researcher says. Neuro-scientist Craig Kinsley of the University of Richmond in Virginia, writing in the journal Physiology and Behavior, called the phenomenon “maternal-induced neural plasticity.”

Source: LA Times, Oct. 29 Register Illustration by Tim Rauch

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