Subtle persistent working memory and selective attention deficits in women with premenstrual syndrome

Slyepchenko, Anastasiya; Lokuge, Sonali; Nicholls, Brianne; Steiner, Meir; Hall, Geoffrey B.; Soares, Cláudio N.; Frey, Benício N.

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.031

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“…PMS is characterized in different ways across studies, so participant groups with PMS are likely to be broad and heterogeneous. Three studies demonstrated significant group differences, but reported that differences were small [65][66][67]. Of these studies, one study [66] included a healthy control group of naturally-cycling women who were not experiencing any PMS symptoms and the remaining two studies compared women with PMS by severity of symptoms instead of having an asymptomatic control group (e.g., "severe" vs. "mild") [65,67].…”

Section: Studies Of Pms and Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rapkin et al used a non-specific psychomotor speed test which measured the speed subjects could find specified digits in lines of numbers, which also demonstrated no differences [70]. In relation to verbal memory, Keenan et al found that women with PMS had impaired word recall and learning of new words below normal ranges in the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) that was non-phase dependent [66], but the other two studies using different tests (verbal paragraph recall [69] and the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test [67]), with larger samples showed no significant group differences. Slyepchenko et al's study [67] is the only study from the last decade, and found that PMS participants had poorer accuracy in the N-back task, a working memory task that is also impaired in PMDD studies reviewed below.…”

Section: Studies Of Pms and Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…None of the cognitive studies have used this questionnaire. Two studies [67,71] used a retrospective screening tool (Premenstrual Symptom Screening Tool) which has a lower specificity than the DRSP [86], and Diener et al used an outdated retrospective Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire devised in 1968. Therefore, these studies are subject to recall bias and inaccurately defined subject groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This varied stringency for classifying clinical groups was therefore present for control groups too. In Slyephchenko et al's [67] and Man et al's [74] study, control subjects were acceptable as long as they did not meet PMDD criteria, whereas Yen et al [71,72] and Reed et al [75] had specific criteria for controls (e.g., having fewer than x criteria met for PMDD diagnosis). Furthermore, combining both mild and moderate symptomatic women heterogeneously into one clinical group in Resnick et al's study [73] may have masked more significant group differences.…”

Section: Limitations Of Clinical Studies and Scope For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cognition, The Menstrual Cycle, and Premenstrual Disorders: A Review

Thomas

Gurvich

2020

Brain Sciences

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Sex hormones, such as estrogens, progesterone, and testosterone, have a significant influence on brain, behavior, and cognitive functioning. The menstrual cycle has been a convenient model to examine how subtle fluctuations of these hormones can relate to emotional and cognitive functioning. The aim of the current paper is to provide a narrative review of studies investigating cognitive functioning in association with the menstrual cycle in biological females, with a focus on studies that have investigated cognitive functioning across the menstrual cycle in females with premenstrual mood disorders, such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). In line with previous reviews, the current review concluded that there is a lack of consistent findings regarding cognitive functioning across the menstrual cycle. Most studies focused on changes in levels of blood estrogen, and neglected to explore the role of other hormones, such as progesterone, on cognitive functioning. Cognitive research involving premenstrual disorders is in its infancy, and it remains unclear whether any cognitive disturbances that are identified may be attributed to negative experience of mood and psychological symptoms or be a more direct effect of hormonal dysregulation or sensitivity. Suggestions for future research are provided.

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Section: Studies Of Pms and Cognitionmentioning

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Section: Studies Of Pms and Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Limitations Of Clinical Studies and Scope For Future Researchmentioning

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Section: Limitations Of Clinical Studies and Scope For Future Researchmentioning

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Cognition, The Menstrual Cycle, and Premenstrual Disorders: A Review

Thomas

Gurvich

2020

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“…A meta-analysis study revealed the prevalence rate of PMS is as high as 47.8% (4). Given the high proportion of women who experience PMS, its etiology has attracted considerable attention among researchers in recent years (5)(6)(7)(8).…”

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Reduced Reward Responsiveness in Women With Moderate - to - Severe Premenstrual Syndrome: Evidence From a Probabilistic Reward Task

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Nearly 50% of women of reproductive age worldwide experience premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Women with PMS exhibit low positive affect and low frontal electroencephalography asymmetry scores, both of which are associated with reward processing. These findings suggest that women with PMS may exhibit deficiencies in reward processing. A probabilistic reward task based on signal detection approach was used to assess reward responsiveness in 30 women with moderate-to-severe PMS and 31 controls without PMS. The results revealed that in the late luteal phase, the women with moderate-to-severe PMS exhibited lower response bias and lower hit rate toward more frequently rewarded stimuli (rich stimuli) than the controls. By contrast, the response bias and hit rate did not differ between the two groups in the follicular phase. The group differences still remained after controlling for anhedonic symptoms. Furthermore, trial-bytrial probability analyses revealed that women with moderate-to-severe PMS exhibited a trend of having a higher miss rate for rich stimuli than the controls. In particular, when a rich stimulus was preceded by an infrequently rewarded stimulus (a rewarded lean stimulus), participants in the PMS group exhibited a trend for higher miss rate than those in the control group in the late luteal and follicular phases. However, group differences in the probability analyses were nonsignificant after controlling for anhedonic symptoms. These results provide preliminary evidence that women with moderate-to-severe PMS exhibit dysfunctional reward responsiveness and impaired ability to modulate their behavior as a function of prior reinforcement.

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