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Birth control pills impair memory
Sunday September 11, 2011 08:16:26 PM,
IANS
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Washington: Women
taking contraceptive pills face problems with their memory, new
research says.
University of California, Irvine researchers have shown that
hormonal contraception pills "alter memory".
The medications do not damage memory. "It's a change in the type
of information they (women) remember, not a deficit," said
researcher Shawn Nielsen.
"There are only a handful of studies examining the cognitive
effects of the pill, and more than 100 million women use it
worldwide," said Nielsen, according to a university statement.
The change makes sense, said Nielsen, who works with
neurobiologist Larry Cahill, because contraceptives suppress sex
hormones such as oestrogen and progesterone to prevent pregnancy,
the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory reports.
Those hormones were previously linked to women's strong "left
brain" memory by Cahill's research group. "This new finding may be
surprising to some, but it's a natural outgrowth of the research
we've been doing on sex differences for 10 years," Cahill said.
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