Effect of estrous cycle on behavior of females in rodent tests of anxiety

TA Lovick, H Zangrossi Jr - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Anxiety disorders are more prevalent in women than in men. In women the menstrual cycle
introduces another variable; indeed, some conditions eg, premenstrual syndrome, are …

Psychiatric symptoms across the menstrual cycle in adult women: a comprehensive review

AB Handy, SF Greenfield, KA Yonkers… - Harvard review of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
A growing body of research demonstrates menstrual cycle–dependent fluctuations in
psychiatric symptoms; these fluctuations can therefore be considered as prevalent …

Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC): A transdiagnostic framework for ovarian steroid influences on psychopathology

JR Peters, KM Schmalenberger, AG Eng… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluctuations in progesterone (P4) and estradiol (E2) across the menstrual cycle can exert
direct effects on biological systems implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders and represent a …

Estrogens in schizophrenia: progress, current challenges and opportunities

BA Brand, JN de Boer, IEC Sommer - Current opinion in …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The past years have established the importance of estrogens in the pathophysiology of
schizophrenia and have shown its relevance to clinical practice through its influence on …

Schizophrenia and sex hormones: what is the link?

NA Brzezinski-Sinai, A Brzezinski - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The involvement of gonadal hormones in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia has long been
suspected because the psychosis differs in women and men and the illness first makes its …

Symptom fluctuation over the menstrual cycle in anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD: a systematic review

SA Green, BM Graham - Archives of women's mental health, 2022 - Springer
Anxiety disorders are more prevalent and severe in women than men. Extant research
suggests that the menstrual cycle modulates the severity and expression of anxiety …

Estrogen and psychosis—a review and future directions

E Mu, C Gurvich, J Kulkarni - Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2024 - Springer
The link between sex hormones and schizophrenia has been suspected for over a century;
however, scientific evidence supporting the pharmacotherapeutic effects of exogenous …

Premenstrual exacerbation of mental health disorders: a systematic review of prospective studies

LN Nolan, L Hughes - Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2022 - Springer
Mental health disorders can be exacerbated during periods of hormonal fluctuation (eg
pregnancy, menopause), and the risk factors for sensitivity to these fluctuations are similar to …

Depression and anxiety mediate the relationship between the retrospectively measured symptoms of premenstrual disorders and negative but not positive psychotic …

R Antosz-Rekucka, K Prochwicz - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between retrospectively measured
premenstrual symptoms and subclinical forms of positive and negative psychotic symptoms …

The extent and causes of natural variation in menstrual cycles: Integrating empirically-based models of ovarian cycling into research on women's health

AA Shea, VJ Vitzthum - Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Menstrual cycle variability has been extensively documented, yet this basic
physiological fact has not been well integrated into studies of women's health. We examine …