ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2017
Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health.
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.
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90 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of estrogen on spatial navigation and memory.Psychopharmacology · 2024Trial
- Deiodinase 3 Deficiency Impairs Hippocampal and Lateral Ventricle Neurogenesis in Middle-Aged Female Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
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- Nationwide trends and forecasts in Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular disease-related mortality in the United States, 1999-2023: A CDC WONDER analysis.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- An Epigenetic Switch for Sex-Specific Brain Resilience in Stroke: Targeting HDAC2 to Amplify Endogenous Oxytocin Signaling.ACS central science · 2026Article
- Menstrual cycle modulates the effect of BDNF Val66Met variant on category learning.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
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- Longitudinal sex differences in cerebrovascular ageing in older adults: results from the brain in motion study.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Regulating the Impact of Hypertension on Stroke: Therapeutic Potential of a Peptide Mimetic of Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- Loss of ovarian hormones is detrimental in early disease stages of mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and multi-etiology dementia.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- Hormonal milieu influences whole-brain structural dynamics across the menstrual cycle using dense sampling in multiple individuals.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Association Between Menopause Age and Estradiol-Based Hormone Therapy With Cognitive Performance in Cognitively Normal Women in the CLSA.Neurology · 2025Observational
- Mechanisms Underlying Treatment-Resistant Depression: Exploring Sex-Based Biological Differences.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Review
- Effects of Early Midlife Ovarian Removal on Medial Temporal Lobe Gray Matter Volume and Recognition Memory.Hippocampus · 2025Article
- Cognitive impairment following maternal separation in rats mediated by the NADTranslational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Analysis of functional connectivity changes from childhood to old age: A study using HCP-D, HCP-YA, and HCP-A datasets.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Exploring neuroendocrine influences on the sensorimotor-association axis in a female and a male individual.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Sex-informed estrogen receptor modulation in schizophrenia: a male-focused ERβ/GPER1 framework for cognitive and negative symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Idiosyncrasy and generalizability of contraceptive- and hormone-related functional connectomes across the menstrual cycle.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has required the inclusion of women in clinical studies since 1993, which has enhanced our understanding of how biological sex affects certain medical conditions and allowed the development of sex-specific treatment protocols. However, NIH's policy did not previously apply to basic research, and the NIH recently introduced a new policy requiring all new grant applications to explicitly address sex as a biological variable. The policy itself is grounded in the results of numerous investigations in animals and humans illustrating the existence of sex differences in the brain and behavior, and the importance of sex hormones, particularly estrogens, in regulating physiology and behavior. Here, we review findings from our laboratories, and others, demonstrating how estrogens influence brain and behavior in adult females. Research from subjects throughout the adult lifespan on topics ranging from social behavior, learning and memory, to disease risk will be discussed to frame an understanding of why estrogens matter to behavioral neuroscience.
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