Effects of α-lactalbumin on emotional processing in healthy women

The aim of the present study was to analyze differences in the emotional processing (valence, arousal, and dominance) of food-related information in patients with eating disorders (ED), patients with obesity, and healthy women. Moreover, the mediator role of negative affect and the moderating role of the diagnostic group (ED vs. non-ED) were analyzed. Method: The sample consisted of 94 women (39 with eating disorders, 19 with obesity, and 36 healthy participants). Measures: International Affective Picture System (IAPS) food picture exposure task; Self-Assessment Manikin Analog-Visual Scale (SAM) appraising Arousal, Valence, and Dominance; Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26); Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Results: Patients with purging symptomatology rated food images as more unpleasant than healthy women. Patients with purging and restrictive eating symptomatology showed higher levels of arousal and less dominance over the emotions experienced, compared to patients with obesity and healthy women. The mediation analysis showed that negative affect mediated the relationship between eating symptomatology (EAT-26) and the Valence of food images, as well as the control over the emotions experienced when viewing food images (Dominance). For the moderation analysis participants were regrouped into two groups (ED patients vs. non-ED patients). The direct relationship between eating symptomatology and food image valence was moderated by the diagnostic group. However, the group did not moderate the direct relationship between the EAT-26 and dominance over experienced emotions, or the indirect effect on eating symptomatology through negative affect. These results show the relevance of negative affect in the emotional processing of food-related information, and they support an eating disorder-disordered eating dimensional perspective.

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Sex-hormone status and emotional processing in healthy women

Psychoneuroendocrinology ◽

10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105258 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105258

Author(s):

Dali Gamsakhurdashvili ◽

Martin I. Antov ◽

Ursula Stockhorst

Keyword(s):

Emotional Processing ◽

Sex Hormone ◽

Healthy Women ◽

Hormone Status

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Restricted Emotional Processing and Somatic Attribution in Fibromyalgia

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine ◽

10.2190/k7au-9ux9-w8bw-tetl ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 127-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Jos F. Brosschot ◽

Henriette R. Aarsse

Keyword(s):

Heart Rate ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Psychological Symptom ◽

Affective Response ◽

Medically Unexplained Symptoms ◽

State Level ◽

High Ratio ◽

Autonomic Response ◽

Healthy Women

Objective: Medically unexplained symptoms or syndromes, such as fibromyalgia (FM), might be partly caused or sustained by a mechanism involving restricted emotional processing (REP) and the subsequent attribution of emotional arousal to somatic or syndrome-consistent causes. In this study, it was hypothesized that FM patients, compared to healthy individuals, would be higher on trait measures of REP (defensiveness and alexithymia), and would show affective-autonomic response dissociation, that is, higher standardized scores of heart rate responses than affective responses, during negative emotional stimulation. Additionally, FM patients were expected to attribute their bodily symptoms more to somatic than to psychological causes. Method: Emotional movie excerpts were shown to 16 female FM patients and 17 healthy women. Affective response and heart rate were monitored continuously, while symptoms and their causal attributions were measured before and after the excerpts. Repressor coping style and alexithymia were measured, along with negative affectivity and habitual attributions of somatic complaints. Results: FM patients nearly all showed the relatively uncommon combination of high defensiveness and high anxiousness. Compared with healthy women FM patients were more alexithymic, showed a higher level of affective-autonomic response dissociation, and lower within-subject emotional variability. The groups showed opposite attributional patterns, with FM patients attributing symptoms less to psychological causes and more to somatic causes. There was no evidence of a shift in these attributions caused by the emotional stimuli. Conclusions: The results provide preliminary support for the hypotheses. Both at trait and at state level, FM showed restricted emotional processing on most of the parameters measured, and a high ratio of somatic to psychological symptom attribution, coupled with high negative affectivity.

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P.1.g.044 Effects of pharmacologically induced sex-hormone fluctuations on emotional processing of faces in healthy women

European Neuropsychopharmacology ◽

10.1016/s0924-977x(13)70331-6 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. S214-S215

Author(s):

S. Henningsson ◽

K.H. Madsen ◽

A. Pinborg ◽

M. Heede ◽

G.M. Knudsen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotional Processing ◽

Sex Hormone ◽

Healthy Women

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Pharmacokinetics and safety of tanaproget, a nonsteroidal progesterone receptor agonist, in healthy women

Yearbook of Obstetrics Gynecology and Women s Health ◽

10.1016/s1090-798x(08)70162-0 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2007 ◽

pp. 228-229

Author(s):

L.P. Shulman

Keyword(s):

Progesterone Receptor ◽

Receptor Agonist ◽

Healthy Women

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Calcium Reduces Fractures in Healthy Women

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(05)70559-x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

TIMOTHY F. KIRN

Keyword(s):

Healthy Women

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Application of Information Introduced to Dynamic Message Processing and Enjoyment

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000195 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 196-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Byungho Park ◽

Rachel L. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Recognition Memory ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Orienting Response ◽

Structural Features ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Coding System ◽

Message Complexity ◽

Cognitive Resource ◽

Cognitive Overload

Abstract. In an effort to quantify message complexity in such a way that predictions regarding the moment-to-moment cognitive and emotional processing of viewers would be made, Lang and her colleagues devised the coding system information introduced (or ii). This coding system quantifies the number of structural features that are known to consume cognitive resources and considers it in combination with the number of camera changes (cc) in the video, which supply additional cognitive resources owing to their elicitation of an orienting response. This study further validates ii using psychophysiological responses that index cognitive resource allocation and recognition memory. We also pose two novel hypotheses regarding the confluence of controlled and automatic processing and the effect of cognitive overload on enjoyment of messages. Thirty television advertisements were selected from a pool of 172 (all 20 s in length) based on their ii/cc ratio and ratings for their arousing content. Heart rate change over time showed significant deceleration (indicative of increased cognitive resource allocation) for messages with greater ii/cc ratios. Further, recognition memory worsened as ii/cc increased. It was also found that message complexity increases both automatic and controlled allocations to processing, and that the most complex messages may have created a state of cognitive overload, which was received as enjoyable by the participants in this television context.

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