The scientific body of knowledge – Whose body does it serve? A spotlight on oral contraceptives and women’s health factors in neuroimaging

A Role for the Locus Coeruleus in Hippocampal CA1 Place Cell Reorganization during Spatial Reward Learning

(2020) Alexandra Mansell Kaufman et al.   NEURON

Use of the birth control pill affects stress reactivity and brain structure and function

(2020) Rupali Sharma et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Functional reorganization of brain networks across the human menstrual cycle

(2020) Laura Pritschet et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Progesterone shapes medial temporal lobe volume across the human menstrual cycle

(2020) Caitlin M. Taylor et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Novel findings from 2,838 Adult Brains on Sex Differences in Gray Matter Brain Volume

(2019) Martin Lotze et al.   Scientific Reports

Estrus-Cycle Regulation of Cortical Inhibition

(2019) Ann M. Clemens et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Applying a Women’s Health Lens to the Study of the Aging Brain

(2019) Caitlin M. Taylor et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Previous contraceptive treatment relates to grey matter volumes in the hippocampus and basal ganglia

(2019) Belinda Pletzer et al.   Scientific Reports

Ovarian hormones: a long overlooked but critical contributor to cognitive brain structures and function

(2019) Adriene M. Beltz et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The promises and pitfalls of sex difference research

(2019) Liisa A.M. Galea et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

A brief guide to the menstrual cycle and oral contraceptive use for researchers in behavioral endocrinology

(2019) Elizabeth Hampson   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

(2018) Stuart J Ritchie et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Mechanisms underlying the rapid effects of estradiol and progesterone on hippocampal memory consolidation in female rodents

(2018) Karyn M. Frick et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Functional Brain Networks Are Dominated by Stable Group and Individual Factors, Not Cognitive or Daily Variation

(2018) Caterina Gratton et al.   NEURON

Sex differences in the developing brain: insights from multimodal neuroimaging

(2018) Antonia N. Kaczkurkin et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Estrogenic regulation of memory consolidation: A look beyond the hippocampus, ovaries, and females

(2018) Karyn M. Frick et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Task-dependent representations of stimulus and choice in mouse parietal cortex

(2018) Gerald N. Pho et al.   Nature Communications

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites

(2018) B.J. Casey et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Parallel emergence of stable and dynamic memory engrams in the hippocampus

(2018) Thomas Hainmueller et al.   NATURE

The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5–21 year olds

(2018) Leah H. Somerville et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Adverse effects of aromatase inhibition on the brain and behavior in a non-human primate

(2018) Nicole J. Gervais et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Aging: An overview

(2018) Susan Y. Bookheimer et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Estrogens, Aging, and Working Memory

(2018) Elizabeth Hampson   Current Psychiatry Reports

Association of Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy Before Menopause Onset With Medial Temporal Lobe Neurodegeneration

(2018) Burcu Zeydan et al.   JAMA Neurology

Influence of endogenous estradiol, progesterone, allopregnanolone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate on brain resting state functional connectivity across the menstrual cycle

(2017) Sabrina K. Syan et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Sex differences in episodic memory in early midlife

(2017) Dorene M. Rentz et al.   MENOPAUSE-THE JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY

Estrogen enhances hippocampal gray-matter volume in young and older postmenopausal women: a prospective dose-response study

(2017) Kimberly Albert et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

(2017) Evan M. Gordon et al.   NEURON

Hormonal Cycle and Contraceptive Effects on Amygdala and Salience Resting-State Networks in Women with Previous Affective Side Effects on the Pill

(2017) Jonas Engman et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health

(2017) Liisa A.M. Galea et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

How Oral Contraceptives Impact Social-Emotional Behavior and Brain Function

(2017) Estrella R. Montoya et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in cognitive and sensory resting state networks

(2017) Susanne Weis et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Sex hormones and adult hippocampal neurogenesis: Regulation, implications, and potential mechanisms

(2016) Rand Mahmoud et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Oestrogens and Progestagens: Synthesis and Action in the Brain

(2016) M. F. Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Impact of Sex and Menopausal Status on Episodic Memory Circuitry in Early Midlife

(2016) E. G. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Bioavailable Testosterone Linearly Declines Over A Wide Age Spectrum in Men and Women From The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

(2016) Elisa Fabbri et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure

(2016) Elseline Hoekzema et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Hormonal contraceptive use is associated with neural and affective changes in healthy young women

(2016) Nina Lisofsky et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Hormone concentrations throughout uncomplicated pregnancies: a longitudinal study

(2016) Helena Schock et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression

(2016) Charlotte Wessel Skovlund et al.   JAMA Psychiatry

Stability of resting state networks in the female brain during hormonal changes and their relation to premenstrual symptoms

(2015) Timo De Bondt et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Differential effects of androgenic and anti-androgenic progestins on fusiform and frontal gray matter volume and face recognition performance

(2015) Belinda Pletzer et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Estrogen receptors in the central nervous system and their implication for dopamine-dependent cognition in females

(2015) Anne Almey et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Oral contraceptive pill use is associated with localized decreases in cortical thickness

(2015) Nicole Petersen et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Hippocampal volume and functional connectivity changes during the female menstrual cycle

(2015) Nina Lisofsky et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Estrogen Effects on Cognitive and Synaptic Health Over the Lifecourse

(2015) Yuko Hara et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel alter cognition and anxiety in rats concurrent with a decrease in tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the locus coeruleus and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the hippocampus

(2015) Jean Simone et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development

(2015) Delia Fuhrmann et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human

(2015) Russell A. Poldrack et al.   Nature Communications

UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age

(2015) Cathie Sudlow et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Pharmacoepidemiological characterization of drug-induced adverse reaction clusters towards understanding of their mechanisms

(2014) Sayaka Mizutani et al.   COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Epigenetic regulation of estrogen-dependent memory

(2014) Ashley M. Fortress et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Hippocampal Plasticity during the Peripartum Period: Influence of Sex Steroids, Stress and Ageing

(2014) L. A. M. Galea et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies

(2014) Janine A. Clayton et al.   NATURE

A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure

(2014) Amber N.V. Ruigrok et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

50 years of hormonal contraception—time to find out, what it does to our brain

(2014) Belinda A. Pletzer et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Regional gray matter volume differences and sex-hormone correlations as a function of menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptives use

(2013) T. De Bondt et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Hormonal contraceptives masculinize brain activation patterns in the absence of behavioral changes in two numerical tasks

(2013) Belinda Pletzer et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity

(2013) Tsai-Wen Chen et al.   NATURE

Hippocampal volumes differ across the mouse estrous cycle, can change within 24hours, and associate with cognitive strategies

(2013) Lily R. Qiu et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An overview

(2013) David C. Van Essen et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Oral contraceptive pill use and menstrual cycle phase are associated with altered resting state functional connectivity

(2013) Nicole Petersen et al.   NEUROIMAGE

It’s all about money

(2013) Martina Bonenberger et al.   NEUROREPORT

Neural Correlates of Erotic Stimulation under Different Levels of Female Sexual Hormones

(2013) Birgit Abler et al.   PLoS One

Estradiol concentrations and working memory performance in women of reproductive age

(2013) Elizabeth Hampson et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Comparison of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid levels of neuroactive steroids with their brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve levels in male and female rats

(2013) Donatella Caruso et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Characteristics and metabolic effects of estrogen and progestins contained in oral contraceptive pills

(2012) Regine Sitruk-Ware et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

History of oral contraceptive drugs and their use worldwide

(2012) Sophie Christin-Maitre   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Oral contraceptive usage alters the effects of cortisol on implicit fear learning

(2012) Christian Josef Merz et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Estrogen and the prefrontal cortex: Towards a new understanding of estrogen's effects on executive functions in the menopause transition

(2012) Sheila Shanmugan et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Clinically Relevant Hormone Treatments Fail to Induce Spinogenesis in Prefrontal Cortex of Aged Female Rhesus Monkeys

(2012) D. T. Ohm et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sexual dimorphism in the human brain: evidence from neuroimaging

(2012) Julia Sacher et al.   MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Multiple dynamic representations in the motor cortex during sensorimotor learning

(2012) D. Huber et al.   NATURE

Long-term administration with levonorgestrel decreases allopregnanolone levels and alters GABAA receptor subunit expression and anxiety-like behavior

(2012) Patrizia Porcu et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Oral contraceptive use changes brain activity and mood in women with previous negative affect on the pill—A double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized trial of a levonorgestrel-containing combined oral contraceptive

(2012) Malin Gingnell et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Endocrine substrates of cognitive and affective changes during pregnancy and postpartum.

(2011) Joanna L. Workman et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

(2011) B. T. Thomas Yeo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Estrogen Shapes Dopamine-Dependent Cognitive Processes: Implications for Women's Health

(2011) E. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Interactive effects of estrogen and serotonin on brain activation during working memory and affective processing in menopausal women

(2011) C. Neill Epperson et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Neuronal correlates of extinction learning are modulated by sex hormones

(2011) Christian J. Merz et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Adverse effects in women: implications for drug development and regulatory policies

(2011) Ameeta Parekh et al.   Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use modulate human brain structure

(2010) Belinda Pletzer et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Increased memory load-related frontal activation after estradiol treatment in postmenopausal women

(2010) Julie A. Dumas et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Synaptic Estrogen Receptor-  Levels in Prefrontal Cortex in Female Rhesus Monkeys and Their Correlation with Cognitive Performance

(2010) A. C. J. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sex bias in neuroscience and biomedical research

(2010) Annaliese K. Beery et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Of Mice and Women: The Bias in Animal Models

(2010) C. Wald et al.   SCIENCE

Imaging neural activity in worms, flies and mice with improved GCaMP calcium indicators

(2009) Lin Tian et al.   NATURE METHODS

Cycle and gender-specific cerebral activation during a verb generation task using fMRI: Comparison of women in different cycle phases, under oral contraception, and men

(2009) Bastian Rumberg et al.   NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Pregnancy and Laboratory Studies

(2009) Mina Abbassi-Ghanavati et al.   OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Evaluation of pituitary–ovarian axis suppression with three oral contraceptive regimens

(2008) Misty A. Vandever et al.   CONTRACEPTION

Progesterone receptors: Form and function in brain

(2008) Roberta Diaz Brinton et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Hippocampal structural changes across the menstrual cycle

(2008) Xenia Protopopescu et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Reproduction-Induced Neuroplasticity: Natural Behavioural and Neuronal Alterations Associated with the Production and Care of Offspring

(2008) Craig H. Kinsley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY