Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Linear and inverted U-shaped dose-response functions describe estrogen effects on hippocampal activity in young women

  • Janine Bayer,
  • Jan Gläscher,
  • Jürgen Finsterbusch,
  • Laura H. Schulte,
  • Tobias Sommer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03679-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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While estrogen is known to change hippocampal activity in animals, it is not known if this effect extends to humans. Here, authors vary the doses of estrogen in young women and show that the effects on hippocampal activity can be described by linear and inverted-U shaped dose-response functions.