ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2017
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Symptoms Following Ovarian Suppression: Triggered by Change in Ovarian Steroid Levels But Not Continuous Stable Levels.
Article in The American journal of psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04225221 (Ovarian Hormones, Reward Response, and Binge Eating in Bulimia Nervosa), which is not on this map. Cited by 109 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Ovarian Hormones, Reward Response, and Binge Eating in Bulimia Nervosa: An Experimental Design
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109 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 198 citations in OpenAlex.
- Functional MRI evidence of brain alterations in premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Emotion regulation in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and Premenstrual Syndrome: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues for premenstrual syndrome (PMS).The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Biological rhythms in premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a systematic review.BMC women's health · 2024Pooled it
- A scoping review of hormonal clinical trials in menstrual cycle-related brain disorders: Studies in premenstrual mood disorder, menstrual migraine, and catamenial epilepsy.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2023Pooled it
- Premenstrual exacerbation of mental health disorders: a systematic review of prospective studies.Archives of women's mental health · 2022Pooled it
- The effect of hydrogen-rich water consumption on premenstrual symptoms and quality of life: a randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- New Pharmacological Approaches to the Management of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.CNS drugs · 2023Trial
- Effects of acute estradiol and progesterone on perimenstrual exacerbation of suicidal ideation and related symptoms: a crossover randomized controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Baseline anxiety-sensitivity to estradiol fluctuations predicts anxiety symptom response to transdermal estradiol treatment in perimenopausal women - A randomized clinical trial.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Trial
- Brain reactivity during aggressive response in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder treated with a selective progesterone receptor modulator.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Progesterone modulates theta oscillations in the frontal-parietal network.Psychophysiology · 2020Trial
- Premenstrual Disorders in Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
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- Genetic predisposition for depression, psychosocial and behavioural factors and premenstrual symptoms: a cross-sectional study among young women in China.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Association Between Premenstrual Disorders and Psychiatric Disorders.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Postpartum Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder: Review of Neurobiology and Expert Consensus Statement on Classification.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- Molecular Mechanisms of Menstrual Cycle-Related Suicide Risk: A Selective Review of Promising Candidate Systems.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- Affective Sensitivity to Ovarian Steroid Hormone Flux Across the Menstrual Cycle: Manifestations and Biopsychosocial Risk Factors.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Personality and cortical architecture in premenstrual dysphoric disorder.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectivePremenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) symptoms are eliminated by ovarian suppression and stimulated by administration of ovarian steroids, yet they appear with ovarian steroid levels indistinguishable from those in women without PMDD. Thus, symptoms could be precipitated either by an acute change in ovarian steroid levels or by stable levels above a critical threshold playing a permissive role in expression of an underlying infradian affective "pacemaker." The authors attempted to determine which condition triggers PMDD symptoms.
methodThe study included 22 women with PMDD, ages 30 to 50 years. Twelve women who experienced symptom remission after 2-3 months of GnRH agonist-induced ovarian suppression (leuprolide) then received 1 month of single-blind (participant only) placebo and then 3 months of continuous combined estradiol/progesterone. Primary outcome measures were the Rating for Premenstrual Tension observer and self-ratings completed every 2 weeks during clinic visits. Multivariate repeated-measure ANOVA for mixed models was employed.
resultsBoth self- and observer-rated scores on the Rating for Premenstrual Tension were significantly increased (more symptomatic) during the first month of combined estradiol/progesterone compared with the last month of leuprolide alone, the placebo month, and the second and third months of estradiol/progesterone. There were no significant differences in symptom severity between the last month of leuprolide alone, placebo month, or second and third months of estradiol/progesterone. Finally, the Rating for Premenstrual Tension scores in the second and third estradiol/progesterone months did not significantly differ.
conclusionsThe findings demonstrate that the change in estradiol/progesterone levels from low to high, and not the steady-state level, was associated with onset of PMDD symptoms. Therapeutic efforts to modulate the change in steroid levels proximate to ovulation merit further study.
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