Editorial: Effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain

Belinda Pletzer; Erika Comasco; Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez; Agnès Lacreuse; Birgit Derntl

doi:10.3389/fendo.2023.1129203

Editorial: Effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2023 Jan 31:14:1129203. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1129203. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Belinda Pletzer¹, Erika Comasco², Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez¹, Agnès Lacreuse³, Birgit Derntl⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology & Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
² Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Tübingen Center for Mental Health (TüCMH), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: behavior; brain; hormonal contraceptives; intra-uterine device (IUD); progestins.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain
Contraceptive Agents*
Head
Progestins* / pharmacology

Substances

Contraceptive Agents
Progestins

Grants and funding

BP and EH-L are funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant 850953). EC receives funds from Science for Life Laboratory and the Swedish Research Council. BD receives funds from the German Research Foundation (DFG, DE2319, IRTG2804).