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A review of studies of the psychological symptoms found at the menopause
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There is evidence that psychological symptoms do occur in increased frequency in relationship to declining ovarian function, and administration of oestrogens alone or in combination with progestogens appear to alleviate some of the symptoms.About:
This article is published in Maturitas.The article was published on 1978-01-01. It has received 60 citations till now.read more
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The relative contributions of endocrine changes and social circumstances to depression in mid-aged women.
TL;DR: Depression is associated with a surgical menopause and may even be a cause rather than a consequence of this surgery for this atypical group of women, and the most marked increases in depression are associated with multiple causes of worry and multiple roles among currently married women.
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Effect of oestrogen and testosterone implants on psychological disorders in the climacteric.
TL;DR: After two months, women receiving active treatment scored better than the placebo group on a self-rating scale of distress, on anxiety, and on depression, and at 4 months the scores in the three groups no longer differed significantly.
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Characteristics of headache at menopause: a clinico-epidemiologic study
TL;DR: The favourable course of migraine in the postmenopausal period can be attributed primarily to the absence of variations in sex hormone levels although psychological factors also seem to play a fundamental role.
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A new methodological approach to the evaluation of quality of life in postmenopausal women.
Ingela Wiklund,Juhani Holst,Johan Karlberg,L.-A. Mattsson,G. Samsioe,K. Sandin,Margareta Uvebrant,B. von Schoultz +7 more
TL;DR: The findings imply that the use of a battery of standardized questionnaires optimizes the possibility of evaluating climacteric complaints reliably before and after treatment.
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Evaluation of quality of life in clinical trials: Selecting quality-of-life measures
Ingela Wiklund,Johan Karlberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of different quality-of-life measures before and after estrogen replacement therapy and found that disease-specific measures had obvious advantages in detecting small, clinically important changes.
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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
TL;DR: The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in English as mentioned in this paper is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works in English, containing twenty-four volumes.
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The catecholamine hypothesis of affective disorders: a review of supporting evidence
TL;DR: The "catecholamine hypothesis of affective disorders" as discussed by the authors suggests that depression is associated with an absolute or relative decrease in catecholamines, particularly norepinephrine, available at central adrenergic receptor sites.
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The menopausal syndrome
TL;DR: Results of a postal questionnaire survey of 638 women aged 45 to 54, living in the London area in 1964-65, indicate that hot flushes and night sweats are clearly associated with the onset of a natural menopause and that they occur in the majority of women.
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"menopausal symptoms" in women of various ages.
TL;DR: Incidence of symptoms generally attributed to menopausal change was investigated across 5 age groups and between “menopausal” and “nonmenographic” women within the same age group.
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Psychiatric morbidity and the menopause; screening of general population sample.
TL;DR: A survey of 539 women from the general population indicated a high prevalence of minor psychiatric illness in women aged 40-55 years and evidence of an increase in psychiatric morbidity occurring before the menopause and lasting until one year after menstrual periods had ended.