ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2017
Women in the midluteal phase of the menstrual cycle have difficulty suppressing the processing of negative emotional stimuli: An event-related potential study.
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- Effects of menstrual cycle phases on approach-avoidance behaviors in women: a behavioral and event-related potentials study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Expressive Suppression of Emotions in Bulimia Nervosa: An Electroencephalography Study.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Estradiol effects on an emotional interference task in adolescents with current and remitted depression.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Examining a window of vulnerability for affective symptoms in the mid-luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- The Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Approach-Avoidance Behaviors in Women: Evidence from Conscious and Unconscious Processes.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Event-related potential studies of emotion regulation: A review of recent progress and future directions.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2022Review
- The Effect of Pedaling at Different Cadence on Attentional Resources.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- How ovarian hormones influence the behavioral activation and inhibition system through the dopamine pathway.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Emotion regulation deficits have been implicated in anxiety and depressive disorders, and these internalising disorders are more prevalent in women than men. Few electrophysiological studies have investigated sex differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation controlling for menstrual phase. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 28 early follicular women, 29 midluteal women, and 27 men who completed an emotion regulation task. A novel finding of increased N2 amplitude during suppression was found for midluteal women compared with men. These findings suggest midluteal women may be significantly less able to suppress cortical processing of negative stimuli compared to men. This ERP finding was complemented by behavioral ratings data which revealed that while both early follicular and midluteal women reported more distress than men, midluteal women also reported greater effort when suppressing their responses than men. P1 and N1 components were increased in midluteal women compared to men regardless of instructional set, suggesting greater early attentional processing. No sex or menstrual phase differences were apparent in P3 or LPP. This study underscores the importance of considering menstrual phase when examining sex differences in the cortical processing of emotion regulation and demonstrates that midluteal women may have deficits in down-regulating their neural and behavioural responses.
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