{"id":187956,"date":"2024-04-23T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:23:55","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The constant ebb and flow of hormones that guide the menstrual cycle don\u2019t just affect reproductive anatomy. They also reshape the brain, and a study has given us insight into how this happens.<\/p>\n<p>Led by neuroscientists Elizabeth Rizor and Viktoriya Babenko of the University of California Santa Barbara, a team of researchers tracked 30 women who menstruate over their cycles, documenting in detail the structural changes that take place in the brain as hormonal profiles fluctuate.<\/p>\n<p>The results, which are yet to be peer-reviewed but can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.10.09.561616v1\">found on preprint server bioRxiv<\/a>, suggest that structural changes in the brain during menstruation may not be limited to those regions associated with the menstrual cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The constant ebb and flow of hormones that guide the menstrual cycle don\u2019t just affect reproductive anatomy. They also reshape the brain, and a study has given us insight into how this happens. Led by neuroscientists Elizabeth Rizor and Viktoriya Babenko of the University of California Santa Barbara, a team of researchers tracked 30 women [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}