Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women’s brains - Science & research news | Frontiers
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by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Fluctuations in sex hormones influence brain activity of the fear circuitry. A team of researchers in Canada has now examined the effects of oral contraceptive (OC) use on women’s brains. Their findings showed that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) thickness of women who were using OCs was reduced compared to
  • avenging_beatrice@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The publishing of these types studies always concerns me. Those in the public with lower critical thinking skills and agendas against women freely controlling their own family planning see them as evidence for their arguments, and they will leverage them if they can to force politicians to write and pass laws/regulations that don’t completely have bearing in facts.