Dr Jodi Pawluski is a Behavioural Neuroscientist, Psychotherapist and Author based in Rennes, France. Her research is affiliated with the IRSET (UMR_S 1085) a research unit of the INSERM institute, the University of Rennes 1, and the EHESP School of Public Health.

For over fifteen years Jodi has studied the neuroscience of motherhood and the effects of perinatal mental illness and antidepressant medications on the mother and developing offspring. She regularly speaks nationally and internationally about her research findings as well as the fascinating effects of parenting on the brain.

Dr Pawluski regularly speaks with journalists about the neuroscience of parenting and has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, CNN, The Boston Globe, to name a few. She has also been on BBC Radio Women's Hour and FranceInter to talk about the maternal brain. 

She is a Postpartum Support International Coordinator for France and a member of the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative. She is active in publishing, counseling, mentoring and advocating for improvements to perinatal mental health care.

In 2020 she started a podcast called Mommy Brain Revisited which focuses on bringing current research on the parental brain to the general public. She also regularly blogs about the neuroscience of parenting and perinatal mental health at Inspire the Mind and is the author of Mommy Brain (Larousse).