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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.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2021

Gravelsins Laura, Duncan Katherine, Einstein Gillian

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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 contraceptives, which drive fluctuations in synthetic hormone levels; and 2) genetic polymorphisms related to...

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PMID: 34111174
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252807
PMCID: PMC8192013

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