{"id":225758,"date":"2025-11-24T04:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/neuroscientist-finds-her-brain-shrinks-while-taking-birth-control"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:08:34","slug":"neuroscientist-finds-her-brain-shrinks-while-taking-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/neuroscientist-finds-her-brain-shrinks-while-taking-birth-control","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientist finds her brain shrinks while taking birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientist-finds-her-brain-shrinks-while-taking-birth-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A researcher who completed numerous brain scans found that her cerebral cortex volume was 1% smaller while using hormonal contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p>Read this article at.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A researcher who underwent dozens of brain scans discovered that the volume of her cerebral cortex was 1 per cent lower when she took hormonal contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/grace-wade\/\">Grace Wade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher who completed numerous brain scans found that her cerebral cortex volume was 1% smaller while using hormonal contraceptives. Read this article at. A researcher who underwent dozens of brain scans discovered that the volume of her cerebral cortex was 1 per cent lower when she took hormonal contraceptives. By Grace Wade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}