Fluctuations in symptoms and moods during the menstrual cycle

Moos, Rudolf H.; Kopell, Bert S.; Melges, Frederick T.; Yalom, Irvin D.; Lunde, Donald T.; Clayton, Raymond B.; Hamburg, David A.

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(69)90017-8

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“…Pain, Water Retention and Negative Affect (Moos et al, 1969;Moos, 1985;Ruble et al, 1980), none showed cyclic trends in the present study. This further reinforces the assertion that subjects in the present study were asymptomatic.…”

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The effects of clobazam on critical flicker fusion threshold and symptomatology during the menstrual cycle

Dye

Hindmarch

1991

Human Psychopharmacology

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The effects of clobazam on critical flicker fusion threshold (CFFT) and menstrual cycle-related symptomatology were examined in a double-blind placebo-controlled study of 11 normally cycling women. Clobazam 10 mg or placebo was administered in two doses, the evening before and the morning of testing at four points in the menstrual cycle (days 7, 14, 21 and 26). Subjects were tested on CFFT and completed the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) and the Premenstrual Mood Index (PMI). Results showed that clobazam did not disrupt the menstrual cycle rhythm in CFFT, which accords with the non-sedative nature of this drug. The lack of effect of clobazam on subjective indices, Impaired Concentration and Behaviour Change of the MDQ confirms the lack of sedative effects. A general tendency, however, was observed for clobazam to reduce symptom reports on some other MDQ PMI scales in the first half of the cycle and to produce a subsequent exacerbation of symptoms in the second half of the cycle.

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The effects of clobazam on critical flicker fusion threshold and symptomatology during the menstrual cycle

Dye

Hindmarch

1991

Human Psychopharmacology

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“…The higher levels of pleasant affective experience among women are not taken into account when illness alone is under consideration and tend to cause considerable bewilderment among researchers when they do appear (see, for example, Amenson & Lewinsohn, 1981). Thus there have been numerous studies of the 'premenstrual syndrome' and the negative affect associated with this state of the menstrual cycle (Messent, 1976;Clare, 1980), although there is some evidence (which has attracted less attention) that a proportion of women experience mood elevation premenstrually (Moos et al 1969). Even more significantly, in the present context, Diamond et al (1972) have observed that the evidence from the studies of emotional change indicates a tendency for greater stability, self-satisfaction and feelings of pleasure in mid-cycle around the time of ovulation.…”

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Sex differences in psychological well-being

Briscoe¹

1982

Psychol. Med. Monogr. Suppl.

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SYNOPSIS General practice prevalence figures indicate that there are between two and three women suffering from minor psychiatric illness for every man thus diagnosed. This study aims to explore possible reasons for this excess. The focus is on examining sex differences in the expression of feelings as well as symptoms, primarily in a sample of married couples selected from general practice (and characterized by a high proportion of individuals with manifest psychological difficulties) but also in a random population sample (which includes single as well as married people).The measures used include assessments of health together with indices of emotional responsiveness such as degree of satisfaction with various life domains, avowed happiness and the Affect Balance Scale, which have been developed by research workers whose interests lie mainly beyond the clinical sphere in monitoring the ' quality of life' experienced by the general population through the use of 'subjective social indicators'. These social survey techniques are here used with a more clinical orientation to give a broad focus to the question of sex differences in emotional responsiveness.The results indicate that women are, on the whole, more likely to express their feelings (both pleasant and unpleasant) than men. Men with manifest psychological problems are found to be comparatively rare and, unlike their female counterparts, "they show a drop in positive feelings of well-being rather than a rise in unpleasant feelings, as compared with the general population. Two specific groups to emerge with particularly low levels of psychological well-being are full-time housewives and older single men. It is concluded that there are underlying factors of a biological and/or social nature which predispose the sexes to show different degrees of affective response, upon which such additional influences as the frustrations of the housewife role are super-imposed.

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“…Shainess hypothesized these responses were related to the low levels of estrogen and progesterone in the body at this time. Moos (1969) used a symptom check list, the Nowlis Mood Adjective Check List, and a self-rating scale of sexual arousal to test subjects on nine days of two consecutive menstrual cycles. He reported the levels of anxiety and aggression to be lowest on the eighth and fourteenth days of the cycle.…”

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