Effects of sex and menstrual cycle phase on cardiac response and alpha- amylase levels in psychosocial stress

Espín, Laura; Villada, Carolina; Hidalgo, Vanesa; Salvador, Alicia

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.12.002

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“…The high variability in HR both within and between participants during the laboratory challenge contributes to the fact that it often fails to be a sensitive index of the objective stress response (Quintana and Heathers, 2014). Therefore, these results would partly support findings from other studies that showed marked increases in the physiological response during the TSST (Kirschbaum et al, 1993;Nater et al, 2005;Espin et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 78%

Autonomic, hormonal, and subjective responses to a modified version of the TSST: a pilot study

López¹,

Salvador

Gómez-Amor

2021

An. psicol.

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El objetivo de esta investigación fue estudiar las respuestas hormonales, autonómicas y afectivas a una versión modificada del estresor TSST en una muestra de jóvenes universitarios compuesta de treinta y ocho sujetos (11 hombres y veintisiete mujeres, 11 en la fase lútea del ciclo menstrual, 16 mujeres en la fase folicular). La respuesta hormonal se evaluó con niveles de cortisol. La frecuencia cardíaca y la actividad electrodérmica se registraron durante toda la sesión experimental y la ansiedad rasgo y estado se evaluaron antes y después de la tarea. La fase de discurso provocó la frecuencia cardíaca más alta, la mayor frecuencia de respuestas inespecíficas y el mayor nivel de conductancia de la piel, mostrando diferencias significativas con la fase de habituación. Sin embargo, la respuesta de cortisol salival no fue significativa con respecto al factor estresante. En relación con las diferencias de sexo, independientemente del factor estresante,los hombres mostraron una mayor frecuencia de respuesta inespecífica, un mayor nivel de conductancia de la piel que las mujeres y mayores niveles de cortisol en comparación con las mujeres en la fase lútea. La ansiedad estado fue similar pre y postarea y no reveló ninguna diferencia asociada con el sexo o la fase del ciclo menstrual. Nuestros resultados sugieren que el eje HHA no responde al TSST sentado y proporcionó evidencia de que el TSST provoca diferentes patrones de respuesta psicofisiológica dependiendo de algunas variaciones del protocolo. The aim of this research was to study hormonal, autonomic and affective responses to a modified version of the stressor TSST in a sample of young university students composed for thirty-eight subjects (11 men and twenty seven women, 11 in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, 16 women in the follicular phase). The hormonal response was evaluated with levels of cortisol. Heart rate and Electrodermal Activity were recorded during all the experimental session and trait-state anxiety was evaluated before and after the task. The speech phase elicited the highest heart rate, frequency of non-specific response and skin conductance level, showing significant differences mainly with the habituation phase. However, the salivary cortisol response was not significant with respect to stressor. In relation with sex differences, regardless of the stressor, menshowed higher frequency of non-specific response, greater skin conductance level than women and higher cortisol levels in comparison with women in the luteal phase. State-anxiety was similar pre-/post task and did not reveal any difference associated to sex or menstrual cycle phase. Our results suggest that the HPA axis not response to sitting TSST and provided evidence that TSST elicits different pattern of psychophysiological response depending on some protocol variations.

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Autonomic, hormonal, and subjective responses to a modified version of the TSST: a pilot study

López¹,

Salvador

Gómez-Amor

2021

An. psicol.

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“…Because all participants in the current study were subject to both overnight abstinence and stress induction via the TSST, it is not possible to determine whether abstinence or stress induction played a larger role in the current results. Sixth, menstrual cycle and ovarian hormones may have played a role in stress reactivity (subjective and physiological), craving, and smoking metrics, as has been shown in previous literature (Espin et al 2019;Nakajima et al 2019). However, the inclusion of ovarian hormone influence was outside the scope of the current report and will be described in sufficient detail elsewhere.…”

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The influence of gender and oxytocin on stress reactivity, cigarette craving, and smoking in a randomized, placebo-controlled laboratory relapse paradigm

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Rationale-Female cigarette smokers tend to show greater cessation failure compared to males. Variables that contribute to the maintenance of smoking, including stress and craving, may differentially impact male and female smokers. Novel pharmacotherapies, such as oxytocin, may attenuate stress reactivity and craving in smokers, but work in this area is limited.Objectives-This study assessed the influence of gender and oxytocin on stress reactivity, craving, and smoking in a randomized, placebo-controlled laboratory relapse paradigm.Methods-Male and female adult cigarette smokers (ages 18-45) were enrolled (women oversampled 2:1) and completed a laboratory session, in which intranasal oxytocin or placebo was administered followed by a laboratory social stress task. The role of gender and oxytocin were assessed on measures of stress reactivity, cigarette craving, latency to smoke in a resistance task, subjective responses to smoking, and ad-libitum smoking.Terms of use and reuse: academic research for non-commercial purposes, see here for full terms. http://www.springer.com/gb/openaccess/authors-rights/aam-terms-v1

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“…Further investigation into the gender difference in the impact of forgiveness on this marker is needed. Additionally, the menstrual cycle and oral contraceptive use, which were not assessed in this study, could be relevant to both salivary alpha-amylase (Espin et al, 2019) and heart rate variability measurements (Schmalenberger et al, 2019) and could be an area for future study.…”

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confidence: 99%

Physiological Responses to Narrative Anger Recall and Correlates to Anger, Forgiveness, and Rumination

Whinery

Musleh

Brown

et al. 2022

Journal of Psychophysiology

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Abstract. Narrative recall, or describing an event from one’s past, is a common method to study anger in the laboratory. However, most research using this method has not included a neutral speaking control, and therefore the physiological response attributable to emotion versus the act of speech is unknown. We evaluated heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance level, heart rate variability, and salivary alpha-amylase during silent baseline, neutral speaking, anger recall, and recovery periods, and correlated these measures with trait anger, forgiveness, and rumination ( n = 104). Only systolic blood pressure and skin conductance levels were elevated in the anger recall period above the values in the neutral speaking period, showing the need for this important control. Alpha-amylase was inversely correlated to forgiveness, particularly in females. A neutral speaking control is critical for anger recall protocols because the physiological responses are mostly due to speaking, not anger. Salivary alpha-amylase may be a promising autonomic marker in studies of forgiveness and anger.

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Effects of sex and menstrual cycle phase on cardiac response and alpha- amylase levels in psychosocial stress

Cited by 14 publications

References 77 publications

Autonomic, hormonal, and subjective responses to a modified version of the TSST: a pilot study

Autonomic, hormonal, and subjective responses to a modified version of the TSST: a pilot study

The influence of gender and oxytocin on stress reactivity, cigarette craving, and smoking in a randomized, placebo-controlled laboratory relapse paradigm

Physiological Responses to Narrative Anger Recall and Correlates to Anger, Forgiveness, and Rumination

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