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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Modulation of Intrinsic Salience Network Connectivity over the Menstrual Cycle

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Biological/Neuroscience

  • Marta Palermo
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Sam Lyons
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Paul Savoca
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Brad Dickerson
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
  • Joseph Andreano
    Massachusetts General Hospital

Abstract

Women experience mood disorders at a higher rate than men. This may be related to changing levels of ovarian hormones, which might influence intrinsic brain connectivity and consequently mood and cognition. Through resting state analyses across the menstrual cycle, we observed significant hormone-modulated change of brain connectivity within salience network.

Neuroscience