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I think kegamine is pointing to the grammatical oddity of using the singular "woman" in the title, rather than the plural "women":

  Pregnancy alters woman's brain
The article introduction phrases this in a little more concise a way:

  Pregnancy reduces grey matter in specific parts of a woman's brain
I can see how the introduction probably became contracted to form the title, but in the contracted version, the plural "Pregnancy alters women's brain" would seem a little more grammatically precise than "Pregnancy alters woman's brain".


Not trying to split hairs but is the study statistically significant that they can safely generalize to all women? Regardless I think the phrase "some womens'" would have been better in the title.




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