Category Archives: PMDDPrevent Disease
July 27, 2010
An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal, experts warned today.
Diagnoses for ‘disorders’ could be based on symptoms including toddler tantrums, mild mood swings and binge eating.
Sweeping changes are being made to the U.S Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which influences practitioners around the world.
Most women resort to painkillers to deal with period pain but there is another way to solve this monthly malaise — you just need to pay attention to your cycle
Independent.ie
Dublin, Ireland
By Ailin Quinlam
Monday May 10 2010
YOU either put up with the cramps, the crankiness and the headaches or you pop a painkiller because these are the only options for period pain, right? Wrong, according to psychotherapist Alexandra Pope, who says there is another way.
In healthy women sleep disturbances occur twice as often as in men.
Psychology Today
Health Matters
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by Robert J. Hedaya, M.D.
May 4, 2010
Insomnia, an all too common problem, is usually attributed to stress, depression, anxiety, alcohol or caffeine use, poor sleep hygiene, restless legs syndrome, and sleep apnea. Hormonally, thyroid abnormalities, and unusually low levels of melatonin can cause insomnia as well.
Mirror.co.uk
Celebs
By Denise Welch 29/04/2010
Denise Welch has never felt strong enough to tell all about her 20-year fight against depression – until now.
In the final extract from her sensational autobiography Pulling Myself Together, the Loose Women and Coronation Street star details the severity of the dark illness that left her suicidal.
Denise, 51, married to actor Tim Healy with two sons, Matthew, 21, and Louis, eight, also reveals how a breakthrough hormone treatment finally cured her.
“I know exactly when my 20-year battle with depression started. It was as Tim and I drove home from hospital with our new son Matthew.
I said to Tim: “I feel really weird, as if I’m outside looking in.”
Science Blogs
Posted on: April 26, 2010 8:00 AM, by Tara C. Smith
Student guest post by Anne Dressler
Ninety percent of menstruating women experience some kind of premenstrual symptoms during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, with 20-30% experiencing moderate to severe symptoms. With an even more severe collection of symptoms, is premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). 3-8% of menstruating women report symptoms severe enough to be considered suffering from PMDD. Yet another designation, premenstrual magnification (PMM), is used to describe women who are symptomatic the entire cycle but have a premenstrual exacerbation of a diagnosed psychiatric, medical, or gynecological condition.
Alan Jacobs MD’s Blog
February 10, 2010
A large subset of women suffer from premenstrual syndrome(PMS), with a smaller subset (around 2-5%) suffering the more severe premenstrual dysphoric disorder(PMDD). Why not all women? More broadly, what circumstances land a person into the care of a neuroendocrinologist?
Alan Jacob’s MD’s Blog
March 15, 2010
I previously detailed 3 well-described patterns of catamenial symptoms that women report: Type 1 – premenstrual, Type 2 – peri-ovulatory (mid-cycle), and Type 3 – luteal (throughout the 2 weeks from midcycle to menses). Here I want to describe how and why the two reproductive hormones, estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P), have a yin / yang effect on the brain, so that these 3 patterns make sense.
Alan Jacobs MD’s Blog
March 31, 2010
Not all women experience changes in their neurological or emotional well being because of their hormones, only a subset do. Studies investigating why have found, for example, that women who rate themselves as having significant premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) are also found to have a higher occurrence of mild changes on EEG-brain wave tests, subtle right/left differences on neurological examination, family members with depression, a past history of concussion, migraine headaches or even left-handedness, compared to women without PMS or PMDD.
MentalHelp.net
Rashmi Nemade, Ph.D. & Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. Updated: Aug 7th 2009
The immune system is the body’s defense system. It protects the body from outside threats such as bacteria and viruses that cause infections. When the body comes under attack, immune cells such as T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes and immune proteins known as [...]
MentalHelp.net
Rashmi Nemade, Ph.D. & Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. Updated: Aug 7th 2009
Because of the connections between the nervous and endocrine systems, (e.g., hypothalamic involvement in mood determination, and the effects of thyroid and ovarian hormonal imbalances on mood) it is thought that endocrine dysfunction is a potential cause of bipolar disorders. Though this may not be a surprising conclusion, it is nevertheless a difficult one to establish scientifically. It has proven difficult to determine whether endocrine dysfunction is a cause of bipolar disorder or an effect.
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