The neuropeptide oxytocin has historically been associated with reproduction and maternal
behavior. However, more recent research has uncovered that oxytocin has a much wider …

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that
exhibits striking sex differences in symptoms, prevalence, and associated problems across …

While hormonal contraceptives (HCs) like oral contraceptive pills (OCs) and intrauterine
devices (IUDs) can reportedly influence mood, the evidence is mixed, and the mechanisms …

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in emotion recognition and
regulation that is associated with deficits in social cognition. High alexithymia levels are …

Hormonal changes in ovarian hormones like estradiol (E2) during the menstrual cycle affect
emotional processes, including emotion recognition, memory, and regulation. So far, the …

Despite the evidence of altered emotion processing in oral contraceptive (OC) users, the
impact of hormonal intrauterine devices (IUD) on emotional processing remains unexplored …

Pain catastrophizing is a prominent psychological factor that is strongly correlated with pain.
Although the complex properties of pain catastrophizing vary across different pain phases …

Objective. Based on resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs‐fMRI), to
observe the changes of brain function of bilateral uterine points stimulated by …

Sex/gender is a continuous variable that researchers frequently treat as dichotomous. This
practice can mask continuous underlying adaptive traits and yield spurious dichotomous" …

Pregnancy is a psycho-neuro-endocrinological transition phase in which a plethora of
hormone levels rise substantially, modulating socioemotional functions, brain structures, and …