Estradiol and Hallucination Proneness (Psychoneuroendocrinology 2024)

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Publisher: Psychoneuroendocrinology (Elsevier) · Published: August 29, 2026 · Accessed: August 29, 2026

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• In healthy women, hallucination-proneness in a white-noise listening paradigm changed across the menstrual cycle in line with estradiol levels.
• Estrogen has shown enhancing effects on cognitive control, a function implicated in auditory hallucinations; the estrogen hypothesis suggests neuroprotective effects relevant to symptom severity.
• The study extends the estrogen-hallucination link to healthy participants, not just clinical populations - the peri-relevant finding is that normal hormonal variation shifts phantom-sound detection in healthy brains.