How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations

KM Schmalenberger, HA Tauseef, JC Barone… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite decades of research on the physiological and psychological effects of the menstrual
cycle, studies have not sufficiently adopted consistent methods for operationalizing the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Steroid hormone sensitivity in reproductive mood disorders: on the role of the GABAA receptor complex and stress during hormonal transitions

S Schweizer-Schubert, JL Gordon… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Women worldwide are two to three times more likely to suffer from depression in their
lifetime than are men. Female risk for depressive symptoms is particularly high during the …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of premenstrual syndrome on work-related quality of life in Turkish nurses

HK Sut, E Mestogullari - Safety and health at work, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Little is known about the effects of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on work-
related quality of life in nurses. We aimed to investigate the effect of PMS on work-related …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of within-person changes in cardiac vagal activity across the menstrual cycle: implications for female health and future studies

KM Schmalenberger, TA Eisenlohr-Moul… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Interest in cardiac vagal activity (CVA; eg, parasympathetically-mediated heart rate
variability) as a biomarker of physical and mental health has increased exponentially in …

[HTML][HTML] Premenstrual syndrome: existence, knowledge, and attitude among female university students in Karachi

A Mohib, A Zafar, A Najam, H Tanveer, R Rehman - Cureus, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the existence, knowledge, and the attitude
of female students towards premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Methods This cross-sectional …

Effects of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on mood and cortisol in daily life in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder

S Nayman, T Beddig, I Reinhard… - Psychological medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe psychological risk factors of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) are
not fully understood, but initial evidence points to a potential role of unfavorable cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Premenstrual disorders: a primer and research agenda for psychologists

T Eisenlohr-Moul - The Clinical Psychologist, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One of the most consistent findings in psychiatric epidemiology is that of greater female risk
for affective disorders; females are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression (Kessler …

Western dietary pattern is related to premenstrual syndrome: a case–control study

N Farasati, F Siassi, F Koohdani, M Qorbani… - British Journal of …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Although premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects a large number of women of reproductive
age, the aetiology of this disorder has not yet been fully elucidated. The relationship …

Suicide risk and the menstrual cycle: a review of candidate RDoC mechanisms

SA Owens, T Eisenlohr-Moul - Current psychiatry reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Risk for suicidal behavior may fluctuate across the menstrual
cycle. Here, we use the RDoC framework to review potential mechanisms by which the cycle …