Identification of a narrow post-ovulatory window of vulnerability to distressing involuntary memories in healthy women

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-38

  Soni, Mira ^a   Curran, Valerie H ^a   Kamboj, Sunjeev K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Follicular phase; Intrusive memory; Involuntary memory; Luteal phase; Menstrual cycle; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREMENSTRUAL TENSION RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ESTRADIOL; FOLLICULAR PHASE; INTRUSIVE MEMORY; INVOLUNTARY MEMORY; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878697985     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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