A Comment on advancing the neuroscience of human #pregnancy from Magdalena Martínez-García PhD Emily G. Jacobs Ann-Marie de Lange Susana Carmona

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New paper just published in Communications Biology! 🎉

In this work led by Alina Sartorius, we describe and functionally annotate the evolutionary timeline of the oxytocin signaling pathway nature.com/articles/s4200… 🔓

Analysis scripts ➡️ osf.io/rxphw/

What a moment for women’s brain health! And what a joy to draw up this roadmap with three stellar scientists and pioneers in the parental brain space. With them at the helm, the future is blindingly bright. Magdalena Martínez-García PhD Susana Carmona Ann-Marie de Lange

New Preprint 🚨

We studied the effects of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) on the female brain using neuroimaging data and prescription registry data from the UK Biobank.

This project has been such a headache!
Here is what we found 🧵

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📢Publication alert 🧠 We recently launched the ENIGMA Consortium Neuroendocrinology Working Group with the aim to address knowledge gaps about the role of sex hormones in the brain. 🚨Check out our commentary Nature Mental Health
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🌍Call for papers! Submit your work on diversity in neuroscience for our collection 'Equity in Health: Placing Human Diversity at the Heart of Neuroscientific Research” with Frontiers - Neuroscience +  Frontiers - Public Health.🧠Register your interest here👉fro.ntiers.in/equity

Incredible how people still wonder why we still need research grants that exclusively fund women's health.

So much of medical research is based on using the male body as the baseline.

Here's a prime example of how damaging and unjust that can be.

Academic Chatter™

Ann-Marie de Lange and I are guest editing a special issue on 'Sex and Gender in Neurodegenerative Diseases' for Karger Neurodegenerative Disease. If you are working on a relevant paper for this special issue, consider submitting here - go.karger.com/cfpndd

“Every cell in a woman’s body produces Xist. But for several decades, we’ve used a male cell line as the standard of reference. (…) So, all of a female patient’s anti-Xist-complex antibodies —a huge source of women’s autoimmune susceptibility —go unseen.» med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

The menstrual cycle beautifully explained by Elle Murata for the younger minds. Spread the word! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our new research investigated the association between hormone replacement therapy and brain health, and whether this depends on APOE status and age, using the UK Biobank. Link to full text:

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University of Canberra UC Faculty of Health UC Centre for Ageing Research and Translation University of Canberra Discipline of Psychology

Want to learn more about current research in women+ mental health? So much amazing work in the burgeoning area we had to extend the conference by a day. Come join us in TORONTO 🇨🇦 for 8 symposia and 29 speakers from 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇸🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴🇨🇦 register here: camh.ca/womenmindconfe…

🚨New preprint!🚨

We explored how dimensions of adversity early in life affects the development of almost 10,000 children's brains.

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Incredible opportunity — come work with the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative and Nina, a powerhouse PI and phenomenal human!

Hvorfor er det store kjønnsforskjeller knyttet til hjernesykdommer?
Les nyeste innlegg i #Medisinbloggen om #hjernehelse , #hormoner og #kjønnsforskjeller . #nevrovitenskap #neuroscience
Dr. Claudia Barth Arielle Crestol Ann-Marie de Lange
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Please take a moment to watch this brilliance. It explains how little 🧠imaging work is done in women’s health. Dr. Caitlin Taylor Emily G. Jacobs article is here. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The journal I edit FIN is doing its best to get us to 1% 😉sciencedirect.com/journal/fronti…