Oct 09, 2025

HerBrain

A breakthrough in pregnancy information

Gabriela Riccardi

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Susana Carmona—Neuromaternal

Pregnancy contains a lot of unknowns, and research is notoriously difficult. At UC Santa Barbara, assistant professor Nina Miolane is working with REAL AI and the AI Core of the Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative to develop a tool designed to offer insight to expectant mothers: HerBrain, the first digital twin of the maternal brain. Built with machine learning and training on brain imaging data from pregnant people (including Miolane, who had a son last year), the prototype illustrates how brain structures change across the pregnancy and postpartum periods, so a woman can predict her weekly shifts. “We want this to be an educational tool,” Miolane says. The HerBrain app is set to launch by 2027, with the goal of eventually integrating it into other pregnancy apps.

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