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4M Seminar Series
We are delighted to announce that 4M will be hosting an online, free-to-attend, public-facing seminar series! The Menarche, Menstruation, Menopause and Mental Health (4M) consortium was established in 2021 to facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary research into how female reproductive health interacts with mental health. Over the past couple of years, the membership has grown and we have […]
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PhD studentship opportunity: The role of hormones in functioning among women with ADHD
An exciting opportunity has arisen to study for a PhD at Queen Mary University, London, supervised by 4M member Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais. Little is known about female-specific factors that influence functioning among women with ADHD, for example hormonal changes that characterise puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy/perinatal period and menopause. This studentship will address these questions […]
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Our second set of workshops
Please note that this post was originally written in 2021, for our former website. In September, we held three workshops to discuss our ideas further. Each workshop was based on a different theme that had emerged from our previous discussions in June. We also invited some stakeholders from Public Health England and the mental health […]
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Our first workshop
Please note that this post was originally written in 2021 for our original website. It was great to meet each other (although still online rather than face-to-face unfortunately) at our first workshop last week. The aim of the workshop was to learn more about each other and start to generate ideas about how we might […]
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How are menstrual and mental health linked?
Please note that this post was originally written in 2021 for our original website. Women are nearly three times more likely to suffer from common mental health disorders than men, and this risk is highest during their reproductive years. Hormonal fluctuations and symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle are likely to form complex, multidirectional associations […]