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Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains

blog.frontiersin.org Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women’s brains - Science & research news | Frontiers

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) ...

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