🚨 My first PhD paper is out! In this preregistered study, we assessed how menopause-related factors, depression, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease (APOE ε4) are linked to cellular and brain aging in women using data from the UK biobank. 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you curious about computational methods women’s mental health?👩‍🔬🧠 No matter if you are experienced in this field or have been slightly intimidated by the complexity of this approach: This #podcast of Let’s Talk About Women is for you!🤓💡 1/4👇

Very excited for the opportunity to write a focus article on Elvisha Dhamala’s latest work! If you are into functional MRI, sex and gender check them out! 👇

Very happy & excited to launch this sub-series to the Let's Talk About Women #podcast 🚀🎙️ It's time to also talk with young researchers about their work - but also their PhD journey - in the field of women's mental health 👩‍🔬

Fantastic article about a transformative scientist Susana Carmona and the birth of a discipline. How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood nature.com/articles/d4158…

My and Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, PhD (CLEAR Lab)'s Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework has been published in molecularpsychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity. 🧵 rdcu.be/dQYfU

Dear Young Scientists, we are organizing a Young Scientist Retreat for you again this autumn in Berlin from November 12-15th 2024! Registration is now open, contact MatthiasFJSperl for more information and registration 🧠

Our newest pub📢: Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) can be beneficial or not on brain health. Why? 1) length of time since menopause (too late=not as effective); 2) type of estrogens used (E1 not as effective as E2) ++. Here we 👀E1 vs E2 on neuroplasticity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hi…

Episode 50 of Mommy Brain Revisited Podcast is out. It’s a good one! 🤩 I talk with Susana Carmona neuromaternal about their recent work on how the brain changes from pregnancy to postpartum. Wow! 🔥🔥🔥 podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/mom…

We are excited to announce the upcoming talk "Harnessing big data to study female brain and mental health" 🧠 by Claudia Barth Dr. Claudia Barth (@nifti12.bsky.social) from Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo that will be held on September 19th at 14:00 (CET). Don’t miss it!

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD Candidate Franziska Weinmar for receiving the excellence award for her poster on neural emotion regulation during pregnancy at ECNP 24 in Milano 🌟🧠 ECNP

For our German-speaking community 📢: listen to our Franziska Weinmar talking about her PhD experience - including challenges and how this results in growing (together) a little every day 🧠👭

Fresh from our summer break, we're back with a new podcast 💥🎙️ This time featuring the amazing @TrekelsJolien, who visited IRTG2804 in Tübingen, to discuss a timely and pressing topic: social media use during adolescence 🧒🤳 1/3

🎙️ Our podcast episode for October! 🎃🍂✨ Let’s talk about women’s health! 👩🏻‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓 Franziska Weinmar shares insights from her research about hormonal changes and sexual health throughout pregnancy & menopause 🔗Link linktr.ee/i_am_scientist #WomensHealth #SciencePodcast #phdlife

Just because you don't see a sex difference in your behaviour does not mean you will not see sex differences in mechanism. NB there are different types of sex differences and mechanistic sex differences will mean different treatments are likely needed to modify the behaviour.

Welcome our November issue into the world! nature.com/neuro/volumes/…

Want to learn more about #menopause and the 🧠? Listen to Franziska Weinmar and me talking about this important topic on the Let’s Talk About Women Podcast. I also give a glimpse into my European Research Council (ERC) 2024 Starting Grant #MappingPerimenopause for the curious ones. 😉

🎆 Our last #scicomm #podcast of the 2024 is another Let’s Talk WITH Young Researchers episode in which we give the word to young researchers! 🎆 🗣️🎙️👩‍🔬 1/3

🎆 New year - new podcast !! 🎆 Our 1st conversation of 2025 features Elisavet Kaltsouni, who shares how her research has influenced her holistic perspective on premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) & why a multimodal network approach is needed to understand this disorder 👩🧠🌟 1/3

Can’t believe our new Nature Communications paper is out! ✨🧠🤰 We tracked a cohort of 179 women before, during, and post-pregnancy, revealing a U-shaped trajectory in the mother’s brain structure linked to steroid hormone fluctuations and maternal attachment. #ParentalBrain 🧵👇