The Brian Lehrer Show

Unintended Consequences and the Pill

10.02.2019 - By WNYCPlay

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Beyond the well-known benefits and risks of birth control pills, Sarah Hill, evolutionary psychology researcher, professor at Texas Christian University and the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences  (Avery, 2019), looks at the possible effects of the hormones on brain chemistry.

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