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

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2644-2654

  Petersen, Nicole ^a,b   Touroutoglou, Alexandra ^c   Andreano, Joseph M ^c   Cahill, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Hormonal contraception; Morphometric analysis; Neuroendocrinology

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LATERAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIENCE NETWORK; ADULT; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECTS; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET;

EID: 84931958101     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22797     Document Type: Article

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