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Summer Mengelkoch

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Mengelkoch S, Afshar K, Slavich G
Open Access J Contracept . 2025 Feb; 16:1-29. PMID: 39959454
Hormonal contraceptives have given women historic freedoms and control over their fertility. At the same time, the potential side effects and unintended consequences of hormonal contraceptive use remain unclear due...
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Kim L, Schussler-Fiorenza Rose S, Mengelkoch S, Moriarity D, Gassen J, Alley J, et al.
Stress . 2024 Dec; 27(1):2401788. PMID: 39620249
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are very common and presently implicated in 9 out of 10 leading causes of death in the United States. Despite this fact, our mechanistic understanding of...
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Mengelkoch S, Alley J, Cole S, Slavich G
J Affect Disord . 2024 Nov; 371:245-252. PMID: 39532234
Background: Depression risk increases dramatically for adolescent females following the pubertal transition. Although chronic early-life stressor exposure and a maternal history of depression are established risk factors for depression onset...
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Makhanova A, Tolliver M, Buckner Z, Shields G, Hunter C, Mengelkoch S, et al.
Brain Behav Immun . 2024 Aug; 122:555-564. PMID: 39168271
Situational factors can increase people's vulnerability to intergroup bias, including prejudicial attitudes, negative stereotyping, and discrimination. We proposed that increases in inflammatory activity that coincide with acute illness may represent...
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Espinosa M, Butler S, Mengelkoch S, Prieto L, Russell E, Ramshaw C, et al.
Ann Behav Med . 2024 Jun; 58(7):463-473. PMID: 38828482
Background: Nearly 40% of unplanned pregnancies in the USA are the result of inconsistent or incorrect contraceptive use. Finding ways to increase women's comfort and satisfaction with contraceptive use is...
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Gassen J, Mengelkoch S, Slavich G
Brain Behav Immun Health . 2024 May; 38:100793. PMID: 38813082
Although seasonal changes in physiology are well documented, little is known about how human immune and metabolic markers vary across seasons, and no studies have examined how stress → health...
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Mengelkoch S, Cunningham K, Gassen J, Targonskaya A, Zhaunova L, Salimgaraev R, et al.
Sci Rep . 2024 May; 14(1):10513. PMID: 38714675
In the current research, we used data from a sample of 16,327 menstrual cycle tracking app users to examine the association between menstrual cycle characteristics and sexual motivation tracked over...
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Gilgoff R, Mengelkoch S, Elbers J, Kotz K, Radin A, Pasumarthi I, et al.
Stress . 2024 May; 27(1):2327333. PMID: 38711299
Although dysregulated stress biology is becoming increasingly recognized as a key driver of lifelong disparities in chronic disease, we presently have no validated biomarkers of toxic stress physiology; no biological,...
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Gassen J, Mengelkoch S, Shanmugam D, Pearson J, van Lamsweerde A, Benhar E, et al.
Horm Behav . 2024 Apr; 162:105546. PMID: 38640590
Many women experience sexual side effects, such as decreased libido, when taking hormonal contraceptives (HCs). However, little is known about the extent to which libido recovers after discontinuing HCs, nor...
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Mengelkoch S, Slavich G
Curr Psychiatry Rep . 2024 Mar; 26(4):157-165. PMID: 38470558
Purpose Of Review: Although females are at relatively greater risk for a variety of disorders, including depression, the biological mechanisms underlying this striking health disparity remain unclear. To address this...