Webinar “Women’s Mental Health across the Reproductive Years”

On December 3^rd at 16:00 the webinar “Women’s Mental Health across the Reproductive Years” with a lecture “Women’s Mental Health across the Reproductive Years” by prof. Dr. Birgit Derntl (University of Tübingen) and with a presentation “Do Hormonal Contraceptives Modulate Women’s Cognitive Abilities and Emotions?” by assoc. prof. Dr. Ramunė Grikšienė (Vilnius University) will take place.  

Women undergo hormonal transitions throughout their lives that can impact brain plasticity and their cognitive and emotional processes, thus ultimately influencing mental health. In the course of these transitional phases, the risk of mental illness increases dramatically. Thus, in the lecture, Dr. Derntl will focus on two transition periods (menstrual cycle and pregnancy).

But Dr. Grikšienė will explain mechanisms through which hormonal contraceptives may affect brain functions. In addition, she will present results from research groups illustrating the effect.

Prof. Dr. Birgit Derntl is a trained psychologist and psychotherapist. From 2011 until 2015 she was an assistant professor for translational neuroscience at the RWTH Aachen University and since 2015 she is a professor for innovative neuroimaging at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Tübingen.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramunė Grikšienė works as a researcher and a lecturer at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center. She leads a group that investigates relationships between cognitive, socio-emotional functions, endogenous sex steroids, and hormonal contraceptives.

Language: English

Participation: Free

Registration

*After registration you will receive an e-mail with information about joining the webinar in Zoom.

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