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Contraceptive pills affect memory

28.02.2021

The memory of women who take birth control pills: changes under their influence. They remember the essence of emotionally rich events better, but forget the details. Such features of memory are usually more characteristic of men.

They remember the essence of emotionally rich events better, but forget the details. Such features of memory are usually more characteristic of men.

Over 100 million women around the world take oral contraceptives. Scientists at the University of California, who over the past 10 years have studied the characteristics of the memory of both sexes, decided to find out how birth control pills affect memories. They conducted an experiment in which women were shown pictures of their mother, son, and a car accident, and told a story about a boy who was hit by a car.

After some time, scientists checked what the participants in the experiment remembered. Women taking birth control pills remembered key events such as the accident, the transport of the injured boy to the hospital, the surgery that saved him. Women who did not use oral contraceptives were also able to remember small details, such as the color of the car, etc.

Scientists explain that contraceptives suppress the production of female sex hormones such as estrogen and progesterone. These hormones promote figurative memory in the fairer sex, in which the left hemisphere of the brain is mainly involved. This feature of women's memories may be the reason why women are more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress than men, whose memory is more associated with the work of the right hemisphere.

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