There are not enough studies about the relationship between menstrual psychosis and schizophrenia exacerbation during the menstrual cycle. In patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, it is important to examine the psychotic symptoms and depression and anxiety symptoms during the menstrual cycle and to adjust the treatment according to these symptoms. If depression and anxiety symptoms are present...

The development and clinical course of breast cancer is modulated by a variety of endocrine influences. This observation led to the development of endocrine interventions, the first successful modality of targeted anticancer therapy. Today, it is widely recognized that endocrine interventions represent the most effective approaches to reducing the odds of recurrence and death for hormone-respon...

BACKGROUND Cortisol is frequently used as a marker of physiologic stress levels. Using cortisol for that purpose, however, requires a thorough understanding of its normal longitudinal variability. The current understanding of longitudinal variability of basal cortisol secretion in women is very limited. It is often assumed, for example, that basal cortisol profiles do not vary across the menstr...

Previous studies of the effect of hormonal changes across phases of the menstrual cycle on voice onset time (VOT) have not considered the variable of oral contraceptive use. The purpose of this study was to examine both the effects of menstrual cycle phase and that of oral contraceptive use on VOT. It was hypothesized that women taking oral contraceptives would exhibit smaller VOT differences a...

Self-reports of sexual arousal were significantly affected by conditions under which they were elicited. Such self-reports in women not taking oral contraceptives were congruent with a hormonal basis for such arousal only when the women were "unaware" that the study investigated sexual arousal as a function of the menstrual cycle. The "unaware" condition was operationalized by means of daily se...

Introduction: Various phases of menstrual cycle not only affect reproductive system but other systems also. So this study was performed to see effect of various phases of menstrual cycle on nasal mucosa. Materials and methods: Study was performed on 30 healthy female medical students of 18-24 years having regular menstrual cycles. Nasal mucociliary clearance (NMC) time was recorded during menst...

BACKGROUND Prior studies of prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) have shown mixed results regarding its effect on birth weight and gestational age. OBJECTIVES In this retrospective cohort study we examined whether PCE contamination of public drinking-water supplies in Massachusetts influenced the birth weight and gestational duration of children whose mothers were exposed before the...