Trial reportHormones and behavior2015
Menstrual cycle effects on cortisol responsivity and emotional retrieval following a psychosocial stressor.
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- Higher Circulating Cortisol in the Follicular vs. Luteal Phase of the Menstrual Cycle: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Pooled it
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- Psychological distress, but not single-time endocrine stress markers, is associated with unexplained infertility: a prospective case-control study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
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- Acute psychosocial stress modulates neural and behavioral substrates of cognitive control.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Hormonal contraceptive use is associated with differences in women's inflammatory and psychological reactivity to an acute social stressor.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- Acute stress selectively blunts reward anticipation but not consumption: An ERP study.Neurobiology of stress · 2023Article
- Social evaluation under stress: Does acute stress affect social attributions and eye gaze?Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Women demonstrate lower markers of stress and oxidative stress during active shooter training drill.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Analysis of the effects of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in menstrual cycle on ankle proprioception, dynamic balance scores and visual-auditory reaction times in healthy young women.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2021Article
- The Impact of the Menstrual Cycle and Underlying Hormones in Anxiety and PTSD: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here?Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Facial Emotion Recognition and Emotional Memory From the Ovarian-Hormone Perspective: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research.Neurobiology of stress · 2020Review
- Does acute stress influence the Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effect? Implications for substance use disorders.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Active Shooter Training Drill Increases Blood and Salivary Markers of Stress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Avoidance Learning Across the Menstrual Cycle: A Conceptual Replication.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This article is part of a Special Issue "Estradiol and cognition". Laboratory-induced stress produces elevations in cortisol and deficits in memory, especially when stress is induced immediately before retrieval of emotionally valent stimuli. Sex and sex steroids appear to influence these stress-induced outcomes, though no study has directly compared the effects of laboratory-induced stress on cortisol and emotional retrieval across the menstrual cycle. We examined the effect of psychosocial stress on cortisol responsivity and emotional retrieval in women tested during either the follicular phase (low estradiol and progesterone) or the luteal phase (higher estradiol and progesterone). Forty women (50% White; age 18-40 years) participated in the study; 20 completed the task during the luteal phase and 20 during the follicular phase. Psychosocial stress was induced with the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). On the day before the TSST, participants learned two lists of word pairs to 100% criterion. The next day, participants recalled one list after the control condition and the other after the TSST. Women in the follicular phase, but not the luteal phase, demonstrated a significant cortisol response to the TSST. There was a stress-induced decrease in emotional retrieval following the TSST, but this effect was not modified by menstrual phase. However, regression and correlational analyses showed that individual differences in stress-induced cortisol levels were associated with impaired emotional retrieval in the follicular phase only. The present findings indicate that cortisol responsivity and the impairing effects of cortisol on emotional memory are lower when levels of estradiol and progesterone are high compared to when levels are low.
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