r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago
Neuroscience Research found no evidence to support myth that women’s cognitive abilities change across menstrual cycle. Given physiological changes that occur across menstrual cycle, the changes to the brain are either small enough that they don't influence performance or women compensate for these changes.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/womens-menstrual-cycles-dont-change-the-way-our-brains-perform
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u/stumpfucker69 18d ago
Yeah, I came to say this. I always thought it was to do with interactions between estrogen and dopamine levels.