Why Women Easily Angered Coming Menstruation

The mystery of why women easily upset and anxious before menstruation has always been a big question mark. Researchers University of California, Los Angeles, also conducted a study to find answers to such emotional turmoil.

The researchers revealed that the instability of mood before menstruation was related response of cells of the brain called GABA receptors, as reported by New Scientist.

Andrea Rapkin, one of the researchers, said the study published in Biological Psychiatry, carried out by scanning the brains of women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) or premenstrual disforik disorders. PMDD symptoms such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS), only more severe.

Scanning with PET scan that will show that glucose metabolism is required to identify the activity in the brain.

The cause emotional changes before your period was not hormone. Scan results actually showed an increase in activity in the cerebellum, in women with PMDD. The higher the spike in activity, the worse the conditions change emotions.

One function is to limit the activity of GABA cell-related stress and anxiety. In women with PMDD, progesterone will change the shape of GABA receptors in the cerebellum. Changes in shape before the menstrual period this makes GABA cells is difficult to control stress and anxiety.

Suzanne Abraham, a gynecologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia, said that, although carried out on women with PMDD, this study adequately represent the condition of women in general. For your information, women with PMDD only about percent. (VivaNews)

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