Bumil So Forget the Garage for Momhasia, It's New Studies Word

Many empirical experiences reveal pregnant mothers often forget about their pregnancy. Not one of us thought it was a myth, but a recent study confirmed that this was a biological condition.

Forgot when I was pregnant, known as the 'momnesia' or pregnancy brain. These lowering memory powers often occur for small things that seem trivial and unworrisome.

"The general example my patient reported was mislaid on key, lost concentration, or difficulty remembering appointments," said the obstetrician and clinical professor UCLA, Aparna Sridhar, MD, as the parents say.

According to the study of Baylor College of Medicine published in the Science Bulletin journal (September 2026), these changes in memory are related to increasing estrogen hormones during pregnancy.

The researchers from Baylor College of Medicine found a possible biological explanation behind the capital. They identify certain brain circuits that are disturbed when estrogen levels continue to be at a high level, like during pregnancy.

In the rat experiment, an increase in estrogen causes temporary memory disorder without mood swings.

The impact involves a neural pathway between hypothalamus, which acts as a body-setting center, and hypocampus, an important part of memory formation.

As for the high estrogen levels, it increases the activity of hypothalamus neurons. The activity then pressed hypocampus so that the ability to remember was disturbed.

Moments themselves are most visible at the end of pregnancy and can continue after childbirth, but usually subside after pregnant mothers give birth.

Its impact can include short-term and long-term memory, including difficulty remembering names, words, locations, or known information.

"The condition is not serious or medically paralyzing, although it affects daily functions and self-confidence," said Zheng Sun, the medical professor Baylor College of Medicine who became one of the research leaders, ruled by the Reuters.

"The condition is widespread. About 80 percent of pregnant women are aware of those changes, but those numbers reflect most of the personal reports and subjective experiences, not objective testing," the Sun.

But for the record, complaints of forgetting aren't often shown a complete lack of thought or intelligence.

"The point is that pregnancy doesn't just make someone less intelligent." The effect seems more subtle and specific on certain cognitive tasks, "Yylin He said, another researcher from the Pennsylvania Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University.

Estrogen hormones function to help regulate puberty, menstruation cycles, to get changes in order to support fetal development and prepare labor. By the time of pregnancy, his range could increase and reach the peak in the third trimester.

The researchers found, a protein called the estrogen receptor alpha transitioning the hormone signal to the hypothalamus cell. This region has a GABAERGIC neuron that sends signals of inhibition to other parts of the brain.

In rats, high estrogen activates a signal of excessive inhibition and affects the hypochloric. The rat given a high estrogen shows a memory disorder rather than a low estrogen.

"When we genetically remove the estrogen receptors from these hypotalamus neurons, the memory disorder due to estrogen and pregnancy in the rats also recovers. We suspect similar circuits may be a similar role in humans, although invasive research like this cannot be done directly in humans," Sun's jaw.

To support a hypothesis, this study also tests the memory of 70 women, both pregnant participants and not pregnant.

Long-term memory tests, short-term, and work memory indicate a breakdown at the end of pregnancy correlated to the height of estrogen.

"However, we need to emphasize that we're not directly manipulating or measuring these specific neural circuits in pregnant women. Therefore, the find in man supports that hypothesis, but it does not establish the level of relationship as a result of the experiment in the rat," His forehead.

So, momnesia is not just a myth, it has a possible biological explanation. But the mechanism found in the mouse has yet to be proven directly in humans.