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Pill May Be Linked To Increases In Certain Brain Areas.
By jeremyc | August 18, 2010
Source: DIA Daily
The UK Telegraph (8/18, Jamieson) reports that after taking “high-resolution images of men, women taking the pill, and women not taking the pill,” Austrian researchers found the “contraceptive of choice of an estimated 3.5 million British women — a quarter of all 16 to 49-year-olds — increases the size of parts of the brain by about three percent.” The “areas were those linked to ‘feminine’ skills, such as memory and conversation,” and the scientists said the “increase in size could lead to an improvement in function.”
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