Professor Gillian Bentley's Outputs (5)

Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies (2023)
Journal Article
Silva-Caballero, A., Ball, H. L., Kramer, K. L., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 448-460. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad040

Background and objectives
Good sleep quality, associated with few arousals, no daytime sleepiness and self-satisfaction with one’s sleep, is pivotal for adolescent growth, maturation, cognition and overall health. This article aims to identify what... Read More about Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies.

Frequency of Phytoestrogen Consumption and Symptoms at Midlife among Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and London (2023)
Journal Article
Sievert, L. L., Sharmeen, T., Begum, K., Muttukrishna, S., Chowdhury, O., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Frequency of Phytoestrogen Consumption and Symptoms at Midlife among Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and London. Nutrients, 15(17), Article 3676. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15173676

There is a longstanding interest in the relationship between diet and hot flash symptoms during midlife, especially in whether phytoestrogens ease menopausal symptoms. The purpose of this study was to examine hot flashes, night sweats, trouble sleepi... Read More about Frequency of Phytoestrogen Consumption and Symptoms at Midlife among Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and London.

Srd5a1 is differentially regulated and methylated during pre-pubertal development in the ovary and hypothalamus (2023)
Journal Article
Bar-Sadeh, B., Pnueli, L., Keestra, S., Bentley, G., & Melamed, P. (2023). Srd5a1 is differentially regulated and methylated during pre-pubertal development in the ovary and hypothalamus. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 7(10), Article bvad108. https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvad108

5α-reductase-1 catalyzes production of various steroids, including neurosteroids. We reported previously that expression of its encoding gene, Srd5a1, drops in murine ovaries and hypothalamic pre-optic area (POA) after early-life immune stress, seemi... Read More about Srd5a1 is differentially regulated and methylated during pre-pubertal development in the ovary and hypothalamus.

Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin (2023)
Journal Article
Bentley, G. R., Núñez-de la Mora, A., Freed, M. C., Begum, K., Muttukrishna, S., Sharmeen, T., Murphy, L., Chatterton, R. T., Chowdhury, O., Gunu, R., & Leidy Sievert, L. (2023). Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin. Human Nature, 34(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09442-6

Recent studies in social endocrinology have explored the effects of social relationships on female reproductive steroid hormones—estradiol and progesterone—investigating whether they are suppressed in partnered and parous women. Results have been mix... Read More about Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin.

Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities (2023)
Journal Article
Silva-Caballero, A., Ball, H. L., Kramer, K. L., & Bentley, G. R. (2023). Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 1058. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28330-8

Comparing the nature of adolescent sleep across urban and more isolated, rural settings through an ecological, cross-cultural perspective represents one way to inform sleep nuances and broaden our understanding of human development, wellbeing and evo... Read More about Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities.