MULTIPLE-CHOICE CLOZE

Pregnancy - a time to forget / Anecdotal reports that heavily-pregnant women are more (1) .......... have been (2) .......... up by a study that has found that the ability to memorise information drops significantly in the last three months of pregnancy.

Pregnancy - a time to forget / Anecdotal reports that heavily-pregnant women are more (1) .......... have been (2) .......... up by a study that has found that the ability to memorise information drops significantly in the last three months of pregnancy. The findings of the study were reported yesterday to the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in New Orleans by Dr Pamela Keenan, assistant professor of psychiatry at Wayne State University and Dedroit Medical Centre.

In a study into the "benign encephalopathy of pregnancy", Dr Keenan (3) .......... memory tests on 19 pregnant women and found that the ability to (4) .......... information declined during pregnancy.

In a study into the "benign encephalopathy of pregnancy", Dr Keenan (3) .......... memory tests on 19 pregnant women and found that the ability to (4) .......... information declined during pregnancy.

Expressed in (5) .......... of the amount of information that could be remembered, it declined from 49 percent in the first trimester, to 47 percent in the second, to 39 percent in the third. Shortly, after birth the study participants were able to recall 52 percent of the information.

It was noted that after a period of approximately three months, the studied revealed that new mums' memories return to a relative (6) .......... of normality.

Other studies have since been carried out on more subjects revealing more (7) .......... evidence that pregnancy does indeed contribute to memory-loss.

But, then again, there are also health (8) .......... to life with a bun in the oven.