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Do oral contraceptives affect young women’s memory? Dopamine-dependent working memory is influenced by COMT genotype, but not time of pill ingestion

BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), and the well-documented influence of estrogens, notably 17β-estradiol (E2), on cognition, research relating OCs to working memory is limited and mixed. Two factors may contribute to these mixed findings: 1) pharmacokinetics of oral...

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Autores principales: Gravelsins, Laura, Duncan, Katherine, Einstein, Gillian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34111174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252807