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Hey /sci/ I am wondering if taking a medication that lowers DHT levels would have any affect on my math skills or performance in school.

DHT is a potent androgen, its a testosterone derivative.

I have googled it and I seem to get contradiction information. Men with lower testosterone levels tend to have much better math skills, but studies show that testosterone is linked to increased memory and learning.

The medication is finasteride and its supposed to keep you from losing hair. Its a voluntary thing but I have a big forhead and I really want to keep my hair if thats possible.

>> No.3678748

loldunno

Understand Dissociations in dyscalculia

Read that, should give you insight on what to look up or test for.

Also, most testosterone things improve visual memory and spatial memory, however, they tend to worsen left-hemispheric function which is shit like rote. Read the article I gave, I believe generally it would improve approximation but could worsen exact calculations, but I'm speculating.

>> No.3678769

Bump

>> No.3678774

>inject yourselve shittones of testosteron
>learn all things you have to know for school
>its now in your brain
>lower testosteron again
>keep the learned things

>> No.3678779

Might as well add:

Estrogen significantly elevates dopamine activity, which makes it easier to focus and remember exact skills, as well as improving finite precision among motor skills and such. There's a trade-off.

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>>3678774

Good plan

>> No.3678806

>>3678779

I think the most important thing is developmental testosterone levels. Im thinking it probably wont make any difference at all, but its scary to think I could be fucking myself up in school.

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>> No.3678815

>>3678813
What is that thing?

>> No.3678816

>>3678806
>Google Scholar
>testosterone math learning
>estrogen math learning
There. Also combine it with visual memory or spatial learning if you want to

>> No.3678823

>>3678815

Idk man. If anyone knows her name they should let me in on it. She looks like a cartoon.

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>>3678816

Well, its complicated though. The Alpha 5 reductase actually raises testosterone levels. And there dont seem to be many studies on tesoterone derivatives.

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>>3678833

The Alpha 5 reductase inhibitor

>> No.3678843

>>3678823
Prepare your Italian.

http://apollonios.pblogs.gr/2010/11/sok-kathhghtria-kai-anhlikes-mathhtries-ekanan-mpanio-mazi-ology
.html

>> No.3678845

>>3678843
I mean Greek.

>> No.3678852

>>3678843
>>3678845
Ah, nvm

It's Sophia Lucci

You're welcome

>> No.3678872

>Men with lower testosterone levels tend to have much better math skills, but studies show that testosterone is linked to increased memory and learning.
Is this actually true? If yes, how the fuck are these two related?

>> No.3678883

>>3678872
There's different math skills.

Read the article I mentioned:

>>3678748

>> No.3678888

>>3678872

Blacks have 30% higher testosterone levels. There you go.

>> No.3678901

>>3678888
That's racist!

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>>3678838
>>3678838

And now the name please.

>> No.3678908

>>3678901

It doesnt have to be. We can say that inner city black schools are worse so thats why they have worse math skills.

Im not trying to start a racial thing. Thats just one of the possible ways to make sense of the data.

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>>3678907

idk bro. try tinyeye

>> No.3678917

Hahahahaha. I'm the one who posted that study yesterday in relation to that poster who complained about his low testosterone levels.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030645309190018O

Try finasteride, but I don't think it will have any effect on your math ability. If low hormones do affect math ability, it would certainly be a life-long process since the start of puberty.

>> No.3678918

>>3678883

Whichever math skills are most important in my differential equations class are the ones I would like to preserve.

>> No.3678921

>>3678883
I can't see it anywhere in the article. I have just google it though and this half-credible website told me that this is true for women. For men, it doesn't make any difference.

>> No.3678927

>>3678912
>>3678912

already did. 0 hits.

>> No.3678933

>>3678912
It's TIN eye, you fucking tard.