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Brain flip helps to relieve pre-menstrual stress - life - 19 November 2008 - New Scientist

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Description: The female brain has a clever way of mitigating the stress experienced during menstruation: it flip-flops.

The region of the brain used for coping with stress flips to the opposite side of the brain during a woman's period - from an area linked to negative emotion to one that usually deals with cheerier thoughts.

Such a change could help women cope with the hormonal maelstrom going on in their bodies without causing huge behavioural shifts. Oestrogen levels levels, in particular, plummet around menstruation.

Original URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16084-brain-flip-helps-to-relieve-premenstrual-stress.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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