Hippocampal volume and functional connectivity changes during the female menstrual cycle

NeuroImage

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 154-162

  Lisofsky, Nina ^a   Mårtensson, Johan ^b   Eckert, Anne ^c   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Gallinat, Jürgen ^d   Kühn, Simone ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Hormones; Resting state connectivity; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937604489     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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