In the last decade, there has been a remarkable surge in research on the neural and
behavioral correlates of hormonal contraceptive use, particularly oral contraceptive use …

Background Flow state is a subjective experience that people report when task performance
is experienced as automatic, intrinsically rewarding, optimal and effortless. While this …

Background Ovarian hormone fluctuations over the rodent estrous cycle and the human
menstrual cycle are known to significantly impact brain physiology and disease risk, yet this …

Conversations about gender and spatial skills frequently dissolve into a hackneyed debate
over nature and nurture. This is particularly true for conversations concerning three …

Background Endogenous sex hormones and oral contraceptives (OCs) have been shown to
influence key regions implicated in fear processing. While OC use has been found to impact …

In 2019, the US women's national team won gold in the FIFA Women's World Cup. Following
this conclusion, a flurry of news articles [1–3] revealed one of the team's sport-science …

Microglia, resident immune cells in the brain, are shown to mediate the crosstalk between
psychological stress and depression. Interestingly, increasing evidence indicates that sex …

Background Gender dimensions are progressively recognised as a relevant social
determinant of health in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, little is known …

Irregular menstrual cycles, affecting approximately 30% of women in their reproductive
years, are often overlooked in research, limiting our insights into the broader spectrum of …

Affective complexity–the unique ways in which individuals' emotions covary and differentiate–
is an important aspect of internalizing problems. For instance, daily affective complexity has …