Journal
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 366-371Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.12.011
Keywords
Menstrual cycle; Gender; Verb generation; fMRI
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Recent observations have revealed some evidence of the influence of sex and menstrual cycle on cognitive functions. In order to examine further differences depending on different phases of menstrual cycle, the use of oral contraception, and gender, fMRI during verb generation tests was performed in 12 female volunteers at menstrual phase and at luteal phase, 12 female volunteers under oral contraception, and in 12 men. Females under oral contraception compared to females in the menstrual or luteal phase revealed superior activation during verb generation in the right hemisphere; compared to menstrual phase in the superior temporal and in the luteal phase in the inferior frontal cortex. Two further significant activations were revealed comparing females in the luteal phase with males; for the females in the left inferior frontal and for the males in the left superior temporal cortex. Our results indicate that cerebral activity during a verb generation task differs between women during different phases of the menstrual cycle and men, between women under oral contraception and men, as well as between women with and without oral contraception. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available