Posts Tagged ‘UCLA’

Study finds oral contraceptives may thin parts of brain

Tuesday, May 19th, 2015

A new study from the University of California Los Angeles suggests that the birth control pill may thin areas in a woman’s brain. The results of study involving 90 women were published in April in the journal “Human Brain Mapping”. About half the women in the study were using the combination form of oral contraceptives Read more

Addicted to sex?

Friday, August 16th, 2013

Is sex addiction real? That is, is it really a disorder, involving diminished control over behaviour? Questions such as these are difficult to answer because it’s always difficult to distinguish diminished capacity to resist a temptation from a diminished motivation to resist. People who tell us they literally can’t resist might be deceiving themselves, or Read more