@hollysully.bsky.social @martingell.bsky.social @koiralasanju.bsky.social John McClellan France Ran Barzilay Tyler M Moore Ka I Ip @drdamienfair.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social Adriene M. Beltz @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @bart-larsen.bsky.social
Thank you to an incredible team of co-authors and collaborators making this work possible 🙏
🚨This normative and easily identifiable marker could define a critical window for mental health screenings with greater precision than current age-based guidelines.
These findings suggest that menarche is not only a reproductive milestone but also a *neuroendocrine driver of adolescent brain and mental health trajectories*. Yet, menarche remains an underutilized milestone, often documented but rarely integrated in clinical practice.
The onset of menarche, largely independent of age of menarch and socio-environmental factors, preceded a significant spike in internalizing symptoms, while altering the rate of ongoing structural brain development.
In this study, leveraging data from the ABCD study, we found that menarche onset marks a pivotal inflection point in trajectories of internalizing symptoms and gross brain morphormetry.
🧠 Adolescence is a critical window for both brain development and the emergence of mental health symptoms. Yet, much of the published work has focused on chronological age, overlooking a key biological and normative milestone: Menarch.
🚨Preprint Alert 🧠
Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online!
👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵
Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals
@carinaheller.bsky.social, @uni-jena.de,
@umn-midb.bsky.social, @icsantabarbara.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌊 Carina Heller & co explored brain volume changes across typical and atypical menstrual cycles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When @laurapritschet.bsky.social & Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me + 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded a @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Young Investigator Grant!
🧠 Modulating salience network connectivity through olfactory nerve stimulation. Now out in Translational Psychiatry!
👉 Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stay tuned for the irregular cycles movement!!!
The beginning of the irregular cycles movement!! Get round it!☺️🧠💪🏼
Thank you to @drerynnchristensen.bsky.social @ellemurata.bsky.social @npetersen.bsky.social for making this happen! What a dream team 🫶💕
We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠
Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues.
Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience.
Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Argh, I can’t believe I am missing this! Enjoy 😍😍
Thank you 🙏🫶
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present our research on the impact of hormonal contraceptives intake on brain structure in an adolescent sample 🫶
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To better understand how oral contraceptives affect the brain, neuroscientist Carina Heller volunteered herself as a subject. She plans to make her data—from her many brain scans, blood tests and more—openly available.
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
#neuroskyence #neuroscience