--- description: Find out why HerBrain is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. title: HerBrain: The Best Inventions of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2842daeded961b6e/6998ca71e2d64b12edc5fbe7/herbrain-time-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # HerBrain A breakthrough in pregnancy information by [Gabriela Riccardi](/author/gabriela-riccardi/) ## Gabriela Riccardi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  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. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. HerBrain: The Best Inventions of 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318361/herbrain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318361/herbrain/"},"headline":"HerBrain","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:52.193Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318361/herbrain/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2842daeded961b6e/6998ca71e2d64b12edc5fbe7/herbrain-time-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Gabriela Riccardi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/gabriela-riccardi/"}],"creator":"Gabriela Riccardi","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2842daeded961b6e/6998ca71e2d64b12edc5fbe7/herbrain-time-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318361/herbrain/","name":"HerBrain"}}]}] ```