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The ENIGMA-Neuroendocrinology working group to bridge gaps in female mental health research

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We launched the ENIGMA-Neuroendocrinology working group with the aim to address knowledge gaps about the role of sex hormones in the brain, which lead to prevalent sex- and gender-based health disparities in biomedical research. We approach this by adopting a lifespan perspective to explore the interplay of hormonal dynamics and mental health in the brain.

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Fig. 1: Understanding hormonal dynamics throughout the lifespan.

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C.H. was supported by IMPULSE Project from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. C.B. was supported by South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (2023037, 2022103). S.C. was supported by a Miguel Servet Type II research contract (CPII21/00016) from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. L.S. was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01ES033961-01). P.M.T. was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01MH116147).

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  1. Department of Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Carina Heller

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

    Carina Heller

  3. Center for Intervention and Research on adaptive and maladaptive brain Circuits underlying mental health (C-I-R-C), Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Halle, Germany

    Carina Heller

  4. German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Germany

    Carina Heller

  5. Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Carina Heller & Zora Kikinis

  6. Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Claudia Barth

  7. Deakin University, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

    Tim J. Silk & Nandita Vijayakumar

  8. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Tim J. Silk & Nandita Vijayakumar

  9. Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Nandita Vijayakumar

  10. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

    Susana Carmona & Magdalena Martínez-García

  11. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

    Susana Carmona & Magdalena Martínez-García

  12. Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA

    Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Neda Jahanshad, Lauren Salminen, Katherine Lawrence & Paul M. Thompson

  13. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, CA, USA

    Nicole Petersen

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Heller, C., Barth, C., Silk, T.J. et al. The ENIGMA-Neuroendocrinology working group to bridge gaps in female mental health research. Nat. Mental Health 2, 348–350 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00224-2

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