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Alpha neural oscillation of females in the luteal phase is sensitive to high risk during sequential risk decisions

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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 413, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113427

Keywords

Menstrual cycle; The midluteal phase; The late follicular phase; Risk-taking; N1; Low alpha power

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  1. National Plan of Educational Sciences Project (China) [CBA160186]

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This study investigated the neural responses of females to risk stimuli in different menstrual cycle phases using EEG and an economic risk-taking task. The results showed that women in the midluteal phase exhibited a stronger early neural response to high-risk stimuli, indicating a heightened sensitivity to high risk during this phase.
Risk taking is a non-negligible component in decision-making. Previous behavioral studies have demonstrated that female's risk decisions vary along with their menstrual cycle phases. However, little is known how females' neural processes of risk stimuli change in different menstrual cycle phases. To address this, the present study adopted a sequential economic risk-taking task and EEG technique. Thirty eligible female participants completed the task twice with EEG recordings, once in the late follicular phase and once in the midluteal phase, separately. We found that the risk stimuli induced an evident frontal N1 in the early time window of 90-180 ms. The results on N1 showed no significant difference between two phases for low- and medium-risk stimuli; whereas, for highrisk stimuli, females in midluteal phase exhibited a significantly larger N1 than that in late follicular phase. Further, by exploiting time-frequency transformation, we observed a pronounced low alpha (similar to 8 Hz) activity in frontal area from stimuli onset to 175 ms. The results indicated that, only for high-risk stimuli, the alpha power was significantly greater in midluteal phase than that in late follicular phase. Our neural results demonstrated a stronger early neural response to high-risk stimuli of females in midluteal phase, which suggests women are more sensitive to high risk in midluteal than in late follicular phase.

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