#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 explores how puberty-related hormone fluctuations may ⬆️ mental health risks in ♀️ adolescents. Treatment guidance is lacking, underscoring the need for longitudinal studies & cautious adaptation of adult interventions 💊 / @sibelnayman.bsky.social

How are #stress and premenstrual symptoms connected? And are those with a #trauma history more likely to have #PMS or #PMDD? 🌩️ Our systematic review & three meta-analyses combine evidence from 66 studies to explore these questions. Excited our work is finally out! ✨ 👉 doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Publication Alert 💡 Our new commentary is out in @npp-journal.bsky.social: "Menstrual cycle and mental health in adolescents: A developmental neuroendocrine perspective" For full-text: rdcu.be/ezkcJ

Great News | Science Communication Award ✨ Our project Empathique has been awarded the WissKomm-Ambassador prize by the division of @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social of the @dgps.bsky.social. Together with @seymatk.bsky.social, we were honored to accept the award today at the @pug2025.bsky.social

Thanks to @celinebencker.bsky.social and the @stresslabvienna.bsky.social for the warm welcome and inspiring exchange in Vienna! I’m glad that our PMDD research opened up discussions on cycle-sensitive understanding of psychopathology - a perspective much needed for more individualized approaches

Excited to welcome @sibelnayman.bsky.social to Vienna! Thank you for yesterday’s insightful and thought-provoking talk. It certainly has been a productive and energizing week so far!

First day at the @stresslabvienna.bsky.social, visiting @celinebencker.bsky.social and the research team! Excited to spend the week exploring the theoretical background of stress parameters across the menstrual cycle and preparing our meta-analyses on cortisol re-/activity in premenstrual disorders

We are already looking forward to #SAA2026, which will take place at the @univie.ac.at 🇦🇹 from 3 to 5 August 2026. More information will follow shortly on the conference website: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/ 📅 Abstract submission will open on 1 December 2025!

Last week, our team member @celinebencker.bsky.social co-chaired a symposium at #dpk2025 in Berlin with @sibelnayman.bsky.social, focusing on the menstrual cycle and psychopathology. She presented findings from a review examining the role of stress and trauma in premenstrual symptomatology 📊

Honored to have given my Award Lecture at this year’s @dpk-kongress.bsky.social – as the 2024 Young Scientist Awardee of the @dgps.bsky.social A question that will accompany my work in the years to come: 
— Do we need cycle-sensitive psychotherapy? —

Menstrual cycle research lunch #DPK2025 @celinebencker.bsky.social @sibelnayman.bsky.social Great to experience how this group of researchers is growing and connecting

Vielen Dank für die spannenden Beiträge und die tolle Diskussion – ein gelungenes Symposium! Schön zu sehen, wie groß das Interesse am Thema Menstruationszyklus und psychische Gesundheit inzwischen ist. Danke für die Orga @sibelnayman.bsky.social! Freu mich auf weitere spannende Tage am #DPK2025 ✨

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Ich freue mich sehr auf unser heutiges Symposium beim #DPK2025 mit meiner geschätzten Kollegin @sibelnayman.bsky.social. Es wird spannende Beiträge zum Thema Menstruationszyklus und Psychopathologie geben. Ich bin gespannt auf den Austausch und freue mich auf bekannte und neue Gesichter! ✨

It was such a joy to be part of Hannah Klusmann’s DGVT award symposium "The Role of Menstrual Cycle and Sex Hormones for Mental Health," and to have had inspiring discussions during and around the event! Huge congratulations again on this well-deserved award, Hannah 👏🏻 Photo credits: Isabella Hebel😄