{"id":214214,"date":"2025-05-17T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hormone-cycles-shape-the-structure-and-function-of-key-memory-regions-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:02:31","slug":"hormone-cycles-shape-the-structure-and-function-of-key-memory-regions-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hormone-cycles-shape-the-structure-and-function-of-key-memory-regions-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Hormone cycles shape the structure and function of key memory regions in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hormone-cycles-shape-the-structure-and-function-of-key-memory-regions-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date, there was little understanding of how the estrous cycle affects neurons in living mice,\u201d said Nora Wolcott, the paper\u2019s lead author. Now, thanks to advanced microscopy techniques, Goard\u2019s team was able to measure the structure and activity of neurons across multiple estrous cycles, thereby gaining insight into sex hormones\u2019 role in brain plasticity and memory. Other authors on the paper include William Redman, Marie Karpinska, and Emily Jacobs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers observe how fluctuations in ovarian hormones shape the structure and function in the mouse hippocampus, with implications for neural plasticity in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo date, there was little understanding of how the estrous cycle affects neurons in living mice,\u201d said Nora Wolcott, the paper\u2019s lead author. Now, thanks to advanced microscopy techniques, Goard\u2019s team was able to measure the structure and activity of neurons across multiple estrous cycles, thereby gaining insight into sex hormones\u2019 role in brain plasticity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}