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Menstrual Cycle May Alter Brain Chemistry
Fox News ^
| 5/16/05
| Jennifer Warner
Posted on 05/17/2005 6:16:54 AM PDT by pissant
Hormonal changes may actually alter the chemical balance in the brain and trigger some of the mood swings associated with a woman's monthly menstrual cycle, according to a new study.
The study suggests that cells in a brain region called the hippocampus generate different types of receptors for the brain chemical GABA during various phases of the menstrual cycle. These changes may affect a woman's susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and seizures.
Both estrogen and progesterone have effects on nerve cell activation, but the mechanism behind changes in seizure activity and increased anxiety are unknown, write the researchers.
They say their study may offer a new molecular basis for the severe anxiety and depression some women experience in the week or so before their period, known as premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- PMDD. This may also explain why many women with epilepsy suffer more seizures during this time.
The results of the study appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Previous studies have shown that 78 percent of epileptic women have more seizures before menstruation occurs. Seizures in women with epilepsy that are triggered by hormonal changes are called catamenial seizures. This occurs during a part of their menstrual cycle when the levels of the hormone progesterone are low.
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To: pissant
So when are they going to spend thousands of dollars studying
men's hormonal cycles? THAT would be a breakthrough.
"Why, I'm the most even-keeled person on earth. Just don't let them forget my syrup for my flap-jacks when I get my Hardees breakfast."
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posted on
05/17/2005 8:19:15 AM PDT
by
Is2C
(http://www.persecution.com)
To: pissant
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posted on
05/17/2005 9:06:25 AM PDT
by
laishly
To: Is2C
LOL! Or where's my beer, wench!
123
posted on
05/17/2005 9:19:31 AM PDT
by
pissant
(Dead Terrorists are a good thing)
To: Petronski
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posted on
05/17/2005 12:03:10 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
To: TXBSAFH
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posted on
05/17/2005 12:25:26 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
To: pissant
PMS= Pack My Suitecase.
Geez like we needed FNC and some study to tell us this!
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posted on
05/17/2005 12:28:06 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I worked at one resturaunt that every woman (12 of them) there would start within 3 hours of the first one EVERY month.
There was a mutual agreement after the first month and I knew what was happening, They stay out of my kitchen and I'd keep all the knives in the kitchen with me and everybody lived.
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posted on
05/17/2005 12:35:23 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking.)
To: pissant
Oh my, I just listened to the INK SPOTS "IF I DIDN'T CARE" thanks for the url, I'm taking out my charge card as I post!
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:01:01 PM PDT
by
SweetCaroline
(Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.....MAXINE)
To: pissant
In a related study it was found that erections decrease blood flow to the brain.
129
posted on
05/17/2005 1:04:47 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(What an appropriate name for the times in which we live - RAT-ZINGER!)
To: cjshapi
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:06:12 PM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: SweetCaroline
I think we need to do a "study" on why men will turn and look at every hottie that walks by. ....so you admit it! ....why don't YOU tell us WHY?
Don't know about the P-man, but I am always interesting in observing their...um...their...um..clothes, yes their outstanding clothes.
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:07:25 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(What an appropriate name for the times in which we live - RAT-ZINGER!)
To: pissant
[ Menstrual Cycle May Alter Brain Chemistry ]
Thats no may about it.. ask any male thats gone thru a menstrual wife.. Men-o-pause ain't a laughing matter either.. OK its a little funny but men go thru changes too.. MENopause ain't just a feninine happenin.. Red Corvettes, creative comb-overs and all that..
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:08:03 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
To: Junior
What a bunch of idiots. Any of us could have told them this. Buffoons!
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:08:12 PM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: pissant
The study suggests that cells in a brain region called the hippocampus... Just TELLING some women they have a "hippocampus" is enough to set them off.
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:10:54 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(If you can think 180-degrees apart from reality, you might be a Democrat.)
To: N. Theknow
um..clothes, yes their outstanding clothes.LOL....yea, and I'm sure you wife/girlfriend/etc. believes that!!!
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posted on
05/17/2005 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
SweetCaroline
(Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.....MAXINE)
To: SweetCaroline
LOL....yea, and I'm sure you wife/girlfriend/etc. believes that!!!How did you know my wife was a phrenology enthusiast?
136
posted on
05/17/2005 1:14:46 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(What an appropriate name for the times in which we live - RAT-ZINGER!)
To: pissant
Why is this not in breaking news?
To: SweetCaroline
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