Trial reportBiological psychology2013
Hormonal contraception use alters stress responses and emotional memory.
Trial report in Biological psychology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of acute stress on episodic memory: A meta-analysis and integrative review.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
- Region-specific regulation of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor signaling in a mouse model of oral contraceptive exposure.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Affective Disorders: An Updated Review.Open access journal of contraception · 2025Review
- Sex Differences in Stress Susceptibility as a Key Mechanism Underlying Depression Risk.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Hormonal contraceptive use is associated with differences in women's inflammatory and psychological reactivity to an acute social stressor.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- The relationship between salivary Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 and cortisol reactivity and psychological outcomes prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- The Effect of Pythagorean Self-Awareness Intervention on Stress and Mental Health Characteristics of Civil Servants in Crete, Greece.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Weak associations between personality and contraceptive choice.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- A Year Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Deleterious Impact of Hormonal Contraception on Psychological Distress in Women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Association of Innate and Acquired Aerobic Capacity With Resilience in Healthy Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of an 8-Week Web-Based Physical Exercise Intervention.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- Social evaluation under stress: Does acute stress affect social attributions and eye gaze?Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- A single session of moderate intensity exercise influences memory, endocannabinoids and brain derived neurotrophic factor levels in men.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Higher post-encoding cortisol benefits the selective consolidation of emotional aspects of memory.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2021Article
- Stress-Hormone Dynamics and Working Memory in Healthy Women Who Use Oral ContraceptivesFrontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition and Emotional Memory From the Ovarian-Hormone Perspective: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Manipulating Levels of Socially Evaluative Threat and the Impact on Anticipatory Stress Reactivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Relationship Between Androgens and Days per Month of Period Pain, Pelvic Pain, Headache, and TLR4 Responsiveness of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Young Women with Dysmenorrhoea.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- Brain activity during a post-stress working memory task differs between the hormone-present and hormone-absent phase of hormonal contraception.Neurobiology of stress · 2020Article
- Hormonal contraceptive phases matter: Resting-state functional connectivity of emotion-processing regions under stress.Neurobiology of stress · 2020Article
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Abstract
Emotionally arousing material is typically better remembered than neutral material. Since norepinephrine and cortisol interact to modulate emotional memory, sex-related influences on stress responses may be related to sex differences in emotional memory. Two groups of healthy women - one naturally cycling (NC women, n=42) and one using hormonal contraceptives (HC women, n=36) - viewed emotionally arousing and neutral images. Immediately after, they were assigned to Cold Pressor Stress (CPS) or a control procedure. One week later, participants received a surprise free recall test. Saliva samples were collected and later assayed for salivary alpha-amylase (biomarker for norepinephrine) and cortisol. Compared to NC women, HC women exhibited significantly blunted stress hormone responses to the images and CPS. Recall of emotional images differed between HC and NC women depending on noradrenergic and cortisol responses. These findings may have important implications for understanding the neurobiology of emotional memory disorders, especially those that disproportionately affect women.
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