Effects of sex hormonal levels and phases of the menstrual cycle in the processing of emotional faces

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1087-1094

  Guapo, Vinicius Guandalini ^a   Graeff, Frederico Guilherme ^a   Zani, Ana Carolina Tagliati ^a   Labate, Cybelli Morelo ^a   dos Reis, Rosana Maria ^a   Del Ben, Cristina Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Facial emotion recognition; Menstrual cycle; Progesterone; Sex differences; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; ESTROGENS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROGESTERONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 67349147345     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Allen J.S., Damasio H., Grabowski T.J., Bruss J., and Zhang W. Sexual dimorphism and asymmetries in the gray-white composition of the human cerebrum. Neuroimage 18 (2003) 880-894
2. Amin Z., Canli T., and Epperson C.N. Effect of estrogen-serotonin interactions on mood and cognition. Behav. Cogn. Neurosci. Rev. 4 (2005) 43-58
3. Arnold A.P. Sex chromosomes and brain gender. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 5 (2004) 701-708
4. Beck A.T., Ward C.H., Mendelson M., Mock J., and Erbaugh J. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 4 (1961) 561-571
5. Biaggio A.M.B., Natalício L., and Spielberger CD. The development and validation of an experimental Portuguese form of the state trait anxiety inventory. In: Spielberger C.D., and Diaz-Guerrero R. (Eds). Cross-Cultural Research on Anxiety (1976), Hemisphere/Wilew, Washington, DC 29
6. Birzniece V., Backstrom T., Johansson I.M., Lindblad C., Lundgren P., Lofgren M., Olsson T., Ragagnin G., Taube M., Turkmen S., Wahlstrom G., Wang M.D., Wihlback A.C., and Zhu D. Neuroactive steroid effects on cognitive functions with a focus on the serotonin and GABA systems. Brain Res. Rev. 51 (2006) 212-239
7. Bjorn I., Bixo M., Nojd K.S., Nyberg S., and Backstrom T. Negative mood changes during hormone replacement therapy: a comparison between two progestogens. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 183 (2000) 1419-1426
8. Blair R.J. Facial expressions, their communicatory functions and neuro-cognitive substrates. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B: Biol. Sci. 358 (2003) 561-572
9. Braun C.M., Baribeau J.M., Ethier M., Guerette R., and Proulx R. Emotional facial expressive and discriminative performance and lateralization in normal young adults. Cortex 24 (1988) 77-90
10. Cahill L. Why sex matters for neuroscience. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 7 (2006) 477-484
11. Campanella S., Rossignol M., Mejias S., Joassin F., Maurage P., Debatisse D., Bruyer R., Crommelinck M., and Guerit J.M. Human gender differences in an emotional visual oddball task: an event-related potentials study. Neurosci. Lett. 367 (2004) 14-18
12. Cherek D.R., and Lane S.D. Acute effects of d-fenfluramine on simultaneous measures of aggressive escape and impulsive responses of adult males with and without a history of conduct disorder. Psychopharmacology (Berl.) 157 (2001) 221-227
13. Collaer M.L., and Hines M. Human behavioral sex differences: a role for gonadal hormones during early development?. Psychol. Bull. 118 (1995) 55-107
14. Conway C.A., Jones B.C., DeBruine L.M., Welling L.L., Law Smith M.J., Perrett D.I., Sharp M.A., and Al-Dujaili E.A. Salience of emotional displays of danger and contagion in faces is enhanced when progesterone levels are raised. Horm. Behav. 51 (2007) 202-206
15. Damasio A.R., Tranel D., and Damasio H. Individuals with sociopathic behavior caused by frontal damage fail to respond autonomically to social stimuli. Behav. Brain Res. 41 (1990) 81-94
16. Del-Ben C.M., Vilela J.A.A., Crippa J.A.S., Hallak J.E.C., Labate C.M., and Zuardi A.W. Confiabilidade da "Entrevista Clínica Estruturada para o DSM-IV-Versão Clínica" traduzida para o português. Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr. 23 (2001) 156-159
17. Derntl B., Kryspin-Exner I., Fernbach E., Moser E., and Habel U. Emotion recognition accuracy in healthy young females is associated with cycle phase. Horm. Behav. 53 (2008) 90-95
18. Derntl B., Windischberger C., Robinson S., Lamplmayr E., Kryspin-Exner I., Gur R.C., Moser E., and Habel U. Facial emotion recognition and amygdala activation are associated with menstrual cycle phase. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33 (2008) 1031-1040
19. Dickerson F.B. Women, aging, and schizophrenia. J. Women Aging 19 (2007) 49-61
20. Dougherty D.M., Bjork J.M., Marsh D.M., and Moeller F.G. Influence of trait hostility on tryptophan depletion-induced laboratory aggression. Psychiatry Res. 88 (1999) 227-232
21. Duhaney A., and McKelvie S.J. Gender differences in accuracy of identification and rated intensity of facial expressions. Percept. Mot. Skills 76 (1993) 716-718
22. Ekman P., and Friesen W.V. Pictures of Facial Affect (1976), Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto
23. Erwin R.J., Gur R.C., Gur R.E., Skolnick B., Mawhinney-Hee M., and Smailis J. Facial emotion discrimination. I. Task construction and behavioral findings in normal subjects. Psychiatry Res. 42 (1992) 231-240
24. First M.B., Spitzer R.L., Gibbon M., and Williams J.B.W. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders-Clinical Version (SCID-CV) (1997), American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
25. Gasbarri A., Pompili A., d'Onofrio A., Cifariello A., Tavares M.C., and Tomaz C. Working memory for emotional facial expressions: role of the estrogen in young women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33 (2008) 964-972
26. Gitter A.G., Black H., and Mostofsky D. Race and sex in the communication of emotion. J. Soc. Psychol. 88 (1972) 273-276
27. Goldstein J.M., Seidman L.J., Horton N.J., Makris N., Kennedy D.N., Caviness Jr. V.S., Faraone S.V., and Tsuang M.T. Normal sexual dimorphism of the adult human brain assessed by in vivo magnetic resonance imaging. Cereb. Cortex 11 (2001) 490-497
28. Gordon H.W., Corbin E.D., and Lee P.A. Changes in specialized cognitive function following changes in hormone levels. Cortex 22 (1986) 399-415
29. Gorenstein C., and Andrade L. Validation of a Portuguese version of the beck depression inventory and the state-trait anxiety inventory in Brazilian subjects. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 29 (1996) 453-457
30. Hall C.W. Self-reported aggression and the perception of anger in facial expression photos. J. Psychol. 140 (2006) 255-267
31. Hall C.W., Gaul L., and Kent M. College students' perception of facial expressions. Percept. Mot. Skills 89 (1999) 763-770
32. Hall G.B., Witelson S.F., Szechtman H., and Nahmias C. Sex differences in functional activation patterns revealed by increased emotion processing demands. Neuroreport 15 (2004) 219-223
33. Hall J.A., and Matsumoto D. Gender differences in judgments of multiple emotions from facial expressions. Emotion 4 (2004) 201-206
34. Halpern D.F., and Tan U. Stereotypes and steroids: using a psychobiosocial model to understand cognitive sex differences. Brain Cogn. 45 (2001) 392-414
35. Harmer C.J., Mackay C.E., Reid C.B., Cowen P.J., and Goodwin G.M. Antidepressant drug treatment modifies the neural processing of nonconscious threat cues. Biol. Psychiatry 59 (2006) 816-820
36. Harmer C.J., Shelley N.C., Cowen P.J., and Goodwin G.M. Increased positive versus negative affective perception and memory in healthy volunteers following selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition. Am. J. Psychiatry 161 (2004) 1256-1263
37. Herpertz S.C., Zanarini M., Schulz C.S., Siever L., Lieb K., and Moller H.J. World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for biological treatment of personality disorders. World J. Biol. Psychiatry 8 (2007) 212-244
38. Higley J.D., and Linnoila M. Low central nervous system serotonergic activity is traitlike and correlates with impulsive behavior A nonhuman primate model investigating genetic and environmental influences on neurotransmission. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 836 (1997) 39-56
39. Hirschfeld R.M., and Russell J.M. Assessment and treatment of suicidal patients. N. Engl. J. Med. 337 (1997) 910-915
40. Hornak J., Rolls E.T., and Wade D. Face and voice expression identification in patients with emotional and behavioural changes following ventral frontal lobe damage. Neuropsychologia 34 (1996) 247-261
41. Jones B.C., DeBruine L.M., Perrett D.I., Little A.C., Feinberg D.R., and Law Smith M.J. Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences. Arch. Sex Behav. 37 (2008) 78-84
42. Kesler-West M.L., Andersen A.H., Smith C.D., Avison M.J., Davis C.E., Kryscio R.J., and Blonder L.X. Neural substrates of facial emotion processing using fMRI. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 11 (2001) 213-226
43. Kessler R.C., McGonagle K.A., Swartz M., Blazer D.G., and Nelson C.B. Sex and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. I. Lifetime prevalence, chronicity and recurrence. J. Affect. Disord. 29 (1993) 85-96
44. Kessler R.C., McGonagle K.A., Zhao S., Nelson C.B., Hughes M., Eshleman S., Wittchen H.U., and Kendler K.S. Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States Results from the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 51 (1994) 8-19
45. Kessler R.C., Sonnega A., Bromet E., Hughes M., and Nelson C.B. Posttraumatic stress disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 52 (1995) 1048-1060
46. Kimura D. Sex hormones influence human cognitive pattern. Neuro Endocrinol. Lett. 23 Suppl. 4 (2002) 67-77
47. Kirouac G., and Dore F.Y. Judgment of facial expressions of emotion as a function of exposure time. Percept. Mot. Skills 59 (1984) 147-150
48. Kornstein S.G., Schatzberg A.F., Thase M.E., Yonkers K.A., McCullough J.P., Keitner G.I., Gelenberg A.J., Davis S.M., Harrison W.M., and Keller M.B. Gender differences in treatment response to sertraline versus imipramine in chronic depression. Am. J. Psychiatry 157 (2000) 1445-1452
49. Ladavas E., Umilta C., and Ricci-Bitti P.E. Evidence for sex differences in right-hemisphere dominance for emotions. Neuropsychologia 18 (1980) 361-366
50. Landgren S., Aasly J., Backstrom T., Dubrovsky B., and Danielsson E. The effect of progesterone and its metabolites on the interictal epileptiform discharge in the cat's cerebral cortex. Acta Physiol. Scand. 131 (1987) 33-42
51. Leppanen J.M. Emotional information processing in mood disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging findings. Curr. Opin. Psychiatry 19 (2006) 34-39
52. Moskowitz D.S., Pinard G., Zuroff D.C., Annable L., and Young S.N. The effect of tryptophan on social interaction in everyday life: a placebo-controlled study. Neuropsychopharmacology 25 (2001) 277-289
53. Norris H. The action of sedatives on brainstem oculomotor systems in man. Neuropharmacology 10 (1971) 181-191
54. Oyuela-Vargas R., and Pardo-Velez C.F. Gender differences in the recognition of facial expressions of emotion. Univ. Psychol. 2 (2003) 151-168
55. Parente A.C., Garcia-Leal C., Del-Ben C.M., Guimaraes F.S., and Graeff F.G. Subjective and neurovegetative changes in healthy volunteers and panic patients performing simulated public speaking. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol. 15 (2005) 663-671
56. Pearson R., and Lewis M.B. Fear recognition across the menstrual cycle. Horm. Behav. 47 (2005) 267-271
57. Pihl R.O., Young S.N., Harden P., Plotnick S., Chamberlain B., and Ervin F.R. Acute effect of altered tryptophan levels and alcohol on aggression in normal human males. Psychopharmacology (Berl.) 119 (1995) 353-360
58. Rapaport M.H., Thompson P.M., Kelsoe Jr. J.R., Golshan S., Judd L.L., and Gillin J.C. Gender differences in outpatient research subjects with affective disorders: a comparison of descriptive variables. J. Clin. Psychiatry 56 (1995) 67-72
59. Reist C., Nakamura K., Sagart E., Sokolski K.N., and Fujimoto K.A. Impulsive aggressive behavior: open-label treatment with citalopram. J. Clin. Psychiatry 64 (2003) 81-85
60. Risch S.C., and Nemeroff C.B. Neurochemical alterations of serotonergic neuronal systems in depression. J. Clin. Psychiatry 53 Suppl. (1992) 3-7
61. Sanders G., Sjodin M., and de Chastelaine M. On the elusive nature of sex differences in cognition: hormonal influences contributing to within-sex variation. Arch. Sex Behav. 31 (2002) 145-152
62. Simon N.M., Zalta A.K., Worthington III J.J., Hoge E.A., Christian K.M., Stevens J.C., and Pollack M.H. Preliminary support for gender differences in response to fluoxetine for generalized anxiety disorder. Depress. Anxiety 23 (2006) 373-376
63. Spielberger C.D., Gorsuch R.I., and Lushene R.E. Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (1970), Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto
64. Wirth M.M., and Schultheiss O.C. Basal testosterone moderates responses to anger faces in humans. Physiol. Behav. 90 (2007) 496-505
65. Zhu D., Birzniece V., Backstrom T., and Wahlstrom G. Dynamic aspects of acute tolerance to allopregnanolone evaluated using anaesthesia threshold in male rats. Br. J. Anaesth. 93 (2004) 560-567
66. Zuardi A.W., Cosme R.A., Graeff F.G., and Guimarães F.S. Effects of ipsapirone and cannabidiol on human experimental anxiety. J. Psychopharmacol. 7 (1993) 82
67. Zuardi A.W., and Karniol I.G. Estudo transcultural de uma escala de auto-avaliação para estados subjetivos. J. Bras. Psiquiatria 131 (1981) 403