Edwina R. Orchard

This paper reviews MRI studies of the maternal brain to assess racial and ethnic diversity, finding underreporting, overrepresentation of white participants, and geographic bias.

This study examines the association between parenthood and brain function in mid- to late-life, finding that higher parity is linked to increased functional connectivity and counteracts age-related declines.

This study uses resting-state fMRI and spDCM to show that postpartum mothers have disinhibited brain connectivity in key regions, suggesting more flexible and responsive behavior in caregiving and cognition.

The paper investigates internal noise in motion direction discrimination tasks and finds higher internal noise in individuals with high ASD traits only for coarse tasks, with no significant correlations in fine tasks.

This study uses simultaneous high-temporal resolution FDG-fPET and fMRI to compare metabolic and haemodynamic connectivity in the human brain, finding that metabolic connectivity is non-ergodic and differs from static FDG-PET covariance.

This study investigates the relationship between motherhood and functional brain connectivity in older adults, finding that motherhood is associated with brain connectivity patterns opposite to age-related decline.

This study shows that individual differences in haemoglobin levels affect BOLD fMRI functional connectivity and its relationship with cognition, with sex-specific patterns observed.

This study finds that the number of children parented correlates with cortical thickness and verbal memory in older adults, with distinct patterns in mothers and fathers.