Contraceptive Hormones Improve Cognitive Function
- Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain
- November 9, 2012
When the brain activates the network related to social tasks, it suppresses activity in the region associated to mechanical reasoning, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Washington University in St Louis Medical School, in the US. This means that “empathetic and analytic thinking are, at least to some extent, mutually exclusive in
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