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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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Lusk, BR and Carr, AR and Ranson, VA and Felmingham, KL, Women in the midluteal phase of the menstrual cycle have difficulty suppressing the processing of negative emotional stimuli: An event-related potential study, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 17, (4) pp. 886-903. ISSN 1530-7026 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2017 Psychonomic Society, Inc.
DOI: doi:10.3758/s13415-017-0520-1
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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | attention bias, emotion regulation, event-related potential, menstrual cycle, midluteal phase, sex differences |
| Research Division: | Psychology |
| Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
| Research Field: | Learning, motivation and emotion |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
| UTAS Author: | Lusk, BR (Dr Bethany Wootton) |
| UTAS Author: | Carr, AR (Associate Professor Andrea Carr) |
| UTAS Author: | Ranson, VA (Ms Val Ranson) |
| ID Code: | 151788 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 15 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2022-08-04 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-09-15 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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