Publications
2025
- Progestagens and progesterone receptor modulation: Effects on the brain, mood, stress, and cognition in females
- Celine Bencker, Laura Gschwandtner, Sibel Nayman, Ramunė Grikšienė, Billie Nguyen, Urs M. Nater, Rachida Guennoun, Inger Sundström-Poromaa, Belinda Pletzer, Marie Bixo, Erika Comasco
- Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
2024
- Whole-brain dynamics and hormonal shifts throughout women's lifespan: From reproductive stages to menopausal transition and beyond
- Anira Escrichs, Daniela Avila-Varela, Gustavo A. Patow, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Belinda Pletzer, Petra Ritter
- Preprint
- Downscaling with benefits: A road forward for capturing intra-individual variations in personality
- Anne-Kathrin Schock, Tobias Hausinger, Belinda Pletzer
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Effects of evening smartphone use on sleep and declarative memory consolidation in male adolescents and young adults
- Christopher Höhn, Michael a Hahn, Georg Gruber, Belinda Pletzer, Christian Cajochen, Kerstin Hoedlmoser
- Brain Communications
- Reproducible stability of verbal and spatial functions along the menstrual cycle
- Belinda Pletzer, Hannah Bodenbach, Marcel Hoehn, Linda Hajdari, Tobias Hausinger, Isabel Noachtar, Adriene M. Beltz
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Whole-brain dynamics across the menstrual cycle: the role of hormonal fluctuations and age in healthy women
- Daniela S. Avila-Varela, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Paulina Clara Dagnino, Irene Acero-Pousa, Elvira del Agua, Gustavo Deco, Belinda Pletzer, Anira Escrichs
- npj Women's Health
2023
- Hearing loss, depression, and cognition in younger and older adult CI candidates
- Maria Huber, Lisa Reuter, Lennart Weitgasser, Belinda Pletzer, Sebastian Rösch, Angelika Illg
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Mental Health Symptoms in Oral Contraceptive Users During Short-Term Hormone Withdrawal
- Isabel A. Noachtar, Vibe G. Frokjaer, Belinda Pletzer
- JAMA Network Open
- Emotion recognition and mood along the menstrual cycle
- Belinda Pletzer, Isabel Noachtar
- Hormones and Behavior
- Hormonal contraception & face processing: examining face gender, androgenicity & treatment duration
- Belinda Pletzer, Isabel Noachtar, Esmeralda Hidalgo Lopez
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Whole-brain dynamics and hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle: The role of progesterone and age in healthy women
- Daniela S. Avila-Varela, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Paulina Clara Dagnino, Irene Acero-Pousa, Elvira del Agua, Gustavo Deco, Belinda Pletzer, Anira Escrichs
- Preprint
- Hormonal contraceptive exposure relates to changes in resting state functional connectivity of anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala
- Esmeralda Hidalgo Lopez, Isabel Noachtar, Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Triple network model of brain connectivity changes related to adverse mood effects in an oral contraceptive placebo-controlled trial
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Jonas Engman, Inger Sundström Poromaa, Malin Gingnell, Belinda Pletzer
- Translational Psychiatry
- Progesterone and contraceptive progestin actions on the brain: A systematic review of animal studies and comparison to human neuroimaging studies
- Belinda Pletzer, Katharina Winkler-Crepaz, Katharina Hillerer
- Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
2022
- Weak associations between personality and contraceptive choice
- Belinda Pletzer, Carmen Lang, Birgit Derntl, Ramune Griksiene
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Duration of oral contraceptive use relates to cognitive performance and brain activation in current and past users
- Isabel Asar Noachtar, Esmeralda Hidalgo Lopez, Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Estradiol during (analogue-)trauma: Risk- or protective factor for intrusive re-experiencing?
- Laila K. Franke, Stephan F. Miedl, Sarah K. Danböck, Johanna Lohse, Michael Liedlgruber, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Belinda Pletzer, Frank H. Wilhelm
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Eye-Movements During Navigation in a Virtual Environment: Sex Differences and Relationship to Sex Hormones
- TiAnni Harris, Johanna Hagg, Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Sex and strategy effects on brain activation during a 3D-navigation task
- Isabel Noachtar, Ti-Anni Harris, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Belinda Pletzer
- Communications Biology
- Oral contraceptives modulate the relationship between resting brain activity, amygdala connectivity and emotion recognition – a resting state fMRI study
- Shanice Mentin-Henry, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Markus Aichhorn, Martin Kronbichler, Hubert Kerschbaum, Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2021
- The gonadal response to social stress and its relationship to cortisol
- Belinda Pletzer, Eefje S. Poppelaars, Johannes Klackl, Eva Jonas
- Stress: the International Journal on Biology of Stress
- Can Cochlear Implantation in Older Adults Reverse Cognitive Decline Due to Hearing Loss?
- Maria Huber, Sebastian Roesch, Belinda Pletzer, Julia Lukaschyk, Anke Lesinski-Schiedat, Angelika Illg
- Ear and Hearing
- How Smart Is It to Go to Bed with the Phone? The Impact of Short-Wavelength Light and Affective States on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
- Sarah Rebecca Schmid, Christopher Höhn, Kathrin Bothe, Christina P. Plamberger, Monika Angerer, Belinda Pletzer, Kerstin Hoedlmoser
- Clocks & Sleep
- Impact of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptives on sleep and overnight memory consolidation
- Christina Paula Plamberger, Helen Elisabeth Van Wijk, Hubert Kerschbaum, Belinda Angela Pletzer, Georg Gruber, Karin Oberascher, Martin Dresler, Michael Andreas Hahn, Kerstin Hoedlmoser
- Journal of Sleep Research
- Sex hormones modulate sex differences and relate to hemispheric asymmetries in a divided visual field Navon task
- Tobias Hausinger, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Behavioural Brain Research
- Delta-beta cross-frequency coupling as an index of stress regulation during social-evaluative threat
- Eefje S. Poppelaars, Johannes Klackl, Belinda Pletzer, Eva Jonas
- Biological Psychology
- Fronto-striatal changes along the menstrual cycle during working memory: effect of sex hormones on activation and connectivity patterns
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Belinda Pletzer
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- The Missing Link: Global-Local Processing Relates to Number-Magnitude Processing in Women
- Belinda Pletzer, Andrea Scheuringer, Ti Anni Harris, Thomas Scherndl
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Preliminary Results: The Impact of Smartphone Use and Short-Wavelength Light during the Evening on Circadian Rhythm, Sleep and Alertness
- Christopher Höhn, Sarah R. Schmid, Christina P. Plamberger, Kathrin Bothe, Monika Angerer, Georg Gruber, Belinda Pletzer, Kerstin Hoedlmoser
- Clocks & Sleep
- Neuroimaging the menstrual cycle: A multimodal systematic review
- Manon Dubol, C. Neill Epperson, Julia Sacher, Belinda Pletzer, Birgit Derntl, Rupert Lanzenberger, Inger Sundström-Poromaa, Erika Comasco
- Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
2020
- Eye-movements during number comparison: Associations to sex and sex hormones
- Larissa Schulte, Stefan Hawelka, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Physiology & Behavior
- Intra-subject consistency of spontaneous eye blink rate in young women across the menstrual cycle
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Georg Zimmermann, Belinda Pletzer
- Scientific Reports
- Psychometric properties of the multifaceted gender-related attributes survey (GERAS)
- Freya Magdalena Gruber, Eva-Maria Distlberger, Thomas Scherndl, Tuulia M. Ortner, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- European Journal of Psychological Assessment
- Predicting ovulation from brain connectivity: Dynamic causal modelling of the menstrual cycle
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Peter Zeidman, Tianni Harris, Adeel Razi, Belinda Pletzer
- Preprint
- Recruiting the right hemisphere: Sex differences in inter-hemispheric communication during semantic verbal fluency
- Andrea Scheuringer, Ti Anni Harris, Belinda Pletzer
- Brain and Language
- What's in a Hub?-Representing Identity in Language and Mathematics
- Aditi Arora, Belinda Pletzer, Markus Aichhorn, Josef Perner
- Neuroscience
- Cognition in older adults with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss compared to peers with normal hearing for age
- Maria Huber, Sebastian Roesch, Belinda Angela Pletzer, Julia Lukaschyk, Anke Lesinski-Schiedat, Angelika Illg
- International Journal of Audiology
- Human menstrual cycle variation in subcortical functional brain connectivity: a multimodal analysis approach
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Karsten Mueller, Ti Anni Harris, Markus Aichhorn, Julia Sacher, Belinda Pletzer
- Brain Structure and Function
- Use of an estradiol-based combined oral contraceptives has no influence on attentional bias or depressive symptoms in healthy women
- Andrea Scheuringer, Cecilia Lundin, Birgit Derntl, Belinda Pletzer, Inger Sundström Poromaa
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
2019
- Data for “Social-evaluative threat: Stress response stages and influences of biological sex and neuroticism”
- Eefje S. Poppelaars, Johannes Klackl, Belinda Angela Pletzer, Frank Wilhelm, Eva Jonas
- Data in Brief
- Neurobiological mechanisms underlying sex-related differences in stress-related disorders: Effects of neuroactive steroids on the hippocampus
- Katharina M Hillerer, David A Slattery, Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
- The cycling brain: menstrual cycle related fluctuations in hippocampal and fronto-striatal activation and connectivity during cognitive tasks
- Belinda Pletzer, Ti Anni Harris, Andrea Scheuringer, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Sex hormones and number processing: Progesterone and testosterone relate to hemispheric asymmetries during number comparison
- Belinda Pletzer, Selina Jäger, Stefan Hawelka
- Hormones and Behavior
- Individual differences in the effect of menstrual cycle on basal ganglia inhibitory control
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Belinda Pletzer
- Scientific Reports
- Previous contraceptive treatment relates to grey matter volumes in the hippocampus and basal ganglia
- Belinda Pletzer, Ti Anni Harris, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez
- Scientific Reports
- Beyond Biological Sex: Interactive Effects of Gender Role and Sex Hormones on Spatial Abilities
- Belinda Pletzer, Julia Steinbeisser, Lara van Laak, Ti Anni Harris
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Sex hormones and gender role relate to gray matter volumes in sexually dimorphic brain areas
- Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Perspective and strategy interactively modulate sex differences in a 3D navigation task
- TiAnni Harris, Andrea Scheuringer, Belinda Pletzer
- Biology of Sex Differences
- Activity-oriented teaching of stochastics in elementary school
- Ulrike Kipman, Anton Kühberger, Belinda Pletzer
- British Journal of Educational Psychology
- Sex differences in number magnitude processing strategies are mediated by spatial navigation strategies: Evidence from the unit-decade compatibility effect
- Belinda Pletzer, Ti Anni Harris, Andrea Scheuringer
- Frontiers in Psychology
2018
- Subcortical structural changes along the menstrual cycle: beyond the hippocampus
- Belinda Pletzer, Ti Anni Harris, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez
- Scientific Reports
- Sex differences and functional hemispheric asymmetries during number comparison
- Tianni Harris, Andrea Scheuringer, Belinda Pletzer
- Biology of Sex Differences
- Sex Hormones Modulate the Relationship between Global Advantage, Lateralization, and Interhemispheric Connectivity in a Navon Paradigm
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Ti-Anni Harris
- Brain Connectivity
2017
- Sex differences in verbal fluency: the role of strategies and instructions
- Andrea Scheuringer, Ramona Wittig, Belinda Pletzer
- Cognitive Processing
- Sex and menstrual cycle influences on three aspects of attention
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Ti-Anni Harris, Tuulia M. Ortner
- Physiology & Behavior
- Interactive effects of dopamine baseline levels and cycle phase on executive functions: The role of Progesterone
- Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Sex differences and menstrual cycle dependent changes in cognitive strategies during spatial navigation and verbal fluency
- Andrea Scheuringer, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Global-local processing relates to spatial and verbal processing: Implications for sex differences in cognition
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Andrea Scheuringer, Thomas Scherndl
- Scientific Reports
2016
- Sex differences in number processing: Differential systems for subtraction and multiplication were confirmed in men, but not in women
- Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Scientific Reports
- Sex differences in the Kimchi-Palmer task revisited: Global reaction times, but not number of global choices differ between adult men and women
- Andrea Scheuringer, Belinda Angela Pletzer
- Physiology & Behavior
- Menstrual Cycle and Hormonal Contraceptive-Dependent Changes in Intrinsic Connectivity of Resting-State Brain Networks Correspond to Behavioral Changes Due to Hormonal Status
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Julia Sophia Crone, Martin Kronbichler, Hubert Kerschbaum
- Brain Connectivity
- Neuroimaging supports behavioral personality assessment: Overlapping activations during reflective and impulsive risk taking
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Tuulia M. Ortner
- Biological Psychology
- Spacing and presentation modes affect the unit-decade compatibility effect during number comparison
- Belinda Angela Pletzer, Andrea Scheuringer, Ti-Anni Harris
- Experimental Psychology
- Behavioural evidence for sex differences in the overlap between subtraction and multiplication
- Belinda Pletzer, Korbinian Moeller, Andrea Scheuringer, Frank Domahs, Hubert H. Kerschbaum, Hans Christoph Nuerk
- Cognitive Processing
- Components of mathematics anxiety: Factor modeling of the MARS30-brief
- Belinda Pletzer, Guilherme Wood, Thomas Scherndl, Hubert H. Kerschbaum, Hans Christoph Nuerk
- Frontiers in Psychology
2015
- Schooling relates to mental health problems in adolescents with cochlear implants-Mediation by hearing and family variables
- Maria Huber, Belinda Pletzer, Alexandros Giourgas, Andreas Nickisch, Silke Kunze, Angelika Illg
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Interactive effects of culture and sex hormones on the sex role self-concept
- Belinda Pletzer, Ourania Petasis, Tuulia M. Ortner, Larry Cahill
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Impulsivity relates to striatal gray matter volumes in humans: evidence from a delay discounting paradigm
- Melanie Tschernegg, Belinda Pletzer, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Philipp Ludersdorfer, Uta Hoffmann, Martin Kronbichler
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Mathematics anxiety reduces default mode network deactivation in response to numerical tasks
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Hans Christoph Nuerk, Hubert H. Kerschbaum
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Differential effects of androgenic and anti-androgenic progestins on fusiform and frontal gray matter volume and face recognition performance
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Hubert Kerschbaum
- Brain Research
2014
- Sex-specific strategy use and global-local processing: A perspective toward integrating sex differences in cognition
- Belinda Pletzer
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- 50 years of hormonal contraception: time to find out, what it does to our brain
- Belinda A. Pletzer, Hubert H. Kerschbaum
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Reading instead of reasoning?: Predictors of arithmetic skills in children with cochlear implants
- Maria Huber, Ulrike Kipman, Belinda Pletzer
- International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
- Hormonal contraceptives masculinize brain activiation patterns in the absense of behavioral changes in two numerical tasks
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Hans Christoph Nuerk, Hubert Kerschbaum
- Brain Research
- Switching between forest and trees: Opposite relationship of progesterone and testosterone to global-local processing
- Belinda Pletzer, Ourania Petasis, Larry Cahill
- Hormones and Behavior
- Predictors of stochastics achievement in primary school pupils
- U Kipman, A Fritz, B Pletzer, Anton Kühberger
- Online Educational Research Journal
2013
- Sex differences in the processing of global vs. local stimulus aspects in a two-digit number comparison task: an fMRI study
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Hans Christoph Nuerk, Hubert Kerschbaum
- PLoS ONE
2011
- Menstrual cycle variations in the BOLD-response to a number bisection task: Implications for research on sex differences
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Gunther Ladurner, Hans Christoph Nuerk, Hubert Kerschbaum
- Brain Research
2010
- Predictors of performance in a real-life statistics examination depend on the individual cortisol profile
- Belinda Pletzer, Guilherme Wood, Korbinian Moeller, Hans Christoph Nuerk, Hubert H. Kerschbaum
- Biological Psychology
- Menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use modulate human brain structure
- Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Markus Aichhorn, Jürgen Bergmann, Gunther Ladurner, Hubert H. Kerschbaum
- Brain Research
- When frequencies never synchronize: the golden mean and the resting EEG
- Belinda Pletzer, Hubert Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Klimesch
- Brain Research
2007
- Corticosterone response in a resident-intruder-paradigm depends on social state and coping style in adolescent male Balb-C mice
- Belinda Pletzer, Wolfgang Klimesch, Karin Oberascher-Holzinger, Hubert Kerschbaum
- Neuroendocrinology Letters