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

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 JUL, 2014, Pages

  Pletzer, Belinda A ^a   Kerschbaum, Hubert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; GESTAGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; STEROID; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMINIZATION; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROSIS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUBERTY; RECOGNITION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; MOOD CHANGE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 84905914662     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00256     Document Type: Article

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