ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2019
Women using hormonal contraceptives show increased valence ratings and memory performance for emotional information.
Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Effect of combined oral contraceptive use on verbal memory function in healthy women.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Sex-dependent differences in connectivity patterns are related to episodic memory recall.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- No Differences in Value-Based Decision-Making Due to Use of Oral Contraceptives.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Event-Related Potentials in Women on the Pill: Neural Correlates of Positive and Erotic Stimulus Processing in Oral Contraceptive Users.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition and Emotional Memory From the Ovarian-Hormone Perspective: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Hormonal contraceptive phases matter: Resting-state functional connectivity of emotion-processing regions under stress.Neurobiology of stress · 2020Article
- Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on Mood: A Focus on Emotion Recognition and Reactivity, Reward Processing, and Stress Response.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
Perception of emotional valence and emotional memory performance vary across the menstrual cycle. However, the consequences of altered ovarian hormone levels due to the intake of hormonal contraceptives on these emotional and cognitive processes remain to be established. In the present study, which included 2169 healthy young females, we show that hormonal contraceptives (HC) users rated emotional pictures as more emotional than HC-non-users and outperformed non-users in terms of better memory recall of emotional pictures. The observed association between HC-status and memory performance was partially mediated by the perception of emotional picture valence, indicating that increased valence ratings of emotional pictures in HC-users led to their better emotional memory performance. These findings extend the knowledge about the relation of HC-intake with emotional valence perception and emotional memory performance. Further, the findings might stimulate further research investigating the interrelation of enhanced memory for emotional events and the increased risk for anxiety-related psychiatric disorders in women.
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