Review, 2006
How do reproductive hormones affect mood in women with PMDD?
Reproductive hormones regulate emotional processing and mood through specific brain circuits. The key question is why normal hormone levels destabilize mood in some women but not others.
What they did
Literature review examining how reproductive hormones affect emotional processing, mood regulation, and PMDD in particular.
What they found
The paper identifies brain circuits and component processes involved in how reproductive hormones regulate mood. It emphasizes differences in how sensitive individual women are to the mood effects of reproductive hormones.
What it means for you
Understanding how hormones affect mood-regulating brain circuits could lead to better PMDD treatments. This summarizes existing research rather than presenting new original findings.
About the study
- Original title
- Gonadal steroid regulation of mood: the lessons of premenstrual syndrome
- Authors
- Rubinow DR, Schmidt PJ
- Journal
- Frontiers in neuroendocrinology
- Year
- 2006
- Study design
- Review
- What was tested
- None - literature review of current knowledge
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2006.02.003
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