Day Eleven: The Gap
28ish Days Later
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The Role of Progesterone in the Brain
Researchers found that when progesterone levels surged, you got an increase in the gray matter of the hippocampus. And then we also had a pretty exciting discovery around brain morphology, right? So what's happening to actually the structure of the brain? This work was led by a postdoc in my lab, Caitlin Taylor. She wanted to understand, can we see dynamic changes in brain volume across the cycle?
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