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Females and AFAB individuals who drink alcohol experience high rates of negative physical and mental health consequences, and high-risk drinking in females is rising in the United States. Existing findings are inconsistent but suggest a relationship between ovarian hormones and alcohol use. This session will describe how alcohol use and drinking motives vary across the menstrual cycle in a large, transdiagnostic sample of psychiatric outpatient females.
As the largest prospective study of alcohol use and the menstrual cycle in a clinical sample to date, our findings encourage individual assessment of cyclical changes in alcohol use in females who may be at risk of negative health outcomes.
Speaker: Jordan Barone, B.A.
Jordan is a fifth-year MD/Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is pursuing both her MD and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Jordan is passionate about reproductive mental health and neuroscience, and her Ph.D. work seeks to understand the relationship between ovarian hormone flux and cyclical exacerbation of suicidal symptoms by identifying biomarkers of symptom change across the menstrual cycle. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with double majors in Neuroscience and Child Development, then completed a post-baccalaureate research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), studying sex differences in brain development across puberty. Her research interests focus on biomarkers at the intersection of hormones, brain, and behavior, such as neuroactive steroids and changes in the GABA-A receptor.
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