Oral contraceptive use is associated with smaller hypothalamic and pituitary gland volumes in healthy women: A structural MRI study

• Ke Xun Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-6641

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• Sandie Worley,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Henry Foster,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• David Edasery,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• Shima Roknsharifi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• Chloe Ifrah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• Michael L. Lipton

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.lipton@einsteinmed.org

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America, Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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