occurring in step with advancing gestational week and the dramatic 
rise in sex hormone production. Remodeling was also evident within 
Received: 23 August 2023
Accepted: 29 July 2024
Published online: 16 September 2024
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1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 2Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University 
of California, Irvine, CA, USA. 3Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National 
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 4Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 5These authors contributed 
equally: Elizabeth R. Chrastil, Emily G. Jacobs.  e-mail: laura.pritschet@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; chrastil@uci.edu; emily.jacobs@psych.ucsb.edu