Mood, Alertness and Sympathetic-Adrenal Medullary Activity during the Menstrual Cycle

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ID19305456
AuthorsPAULA PÁTKAI (Stockholm University), Gunn Johannson (Stockholm University), Birgitta Post (Stockholm University)
Year1974
Volume36
Issue6
Pages503-512
Publication date1974-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00006842-197411000-00005
PMID4473792
OpenAlexW2325571649
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Six healthy women were studied during a daily work routine for a period covering two menstrual cycles. Urinary catecholamines and body temperature were measured each morning of ordinary weekdays. On each occasion estimates of subjective mood and alertness were obtained. Four periods of the menstrual cycle, premenses, postmenses, ovulation and postovulation, were compared in respect to physiological and subjective variables. No significant differences in adrenaline and noradrenaline excretion between periods were found. Estimates of subjective states did not generally differ between periods except for feelings of restlessness. Night sleep was most disturbed during premenses, coinciding with the longest sleep duration. All physiological variables exhibited a high degree of intraindividual constancy during the cycle

Alertness · Circadian rhythm · Hormone · Menstrual cycle · Mood · Morning · Neuroticism · Personality · Psychiatry · Sleep (system call) · Circadian rhythm and melatonin · Endocrinology · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Psychology · Stress Responses and Cortisol · Thermoregulation and physiological responses

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