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Effects of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptives on alertness, cognitive performance, and circadian rhythms during sleep deprivation
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The influence of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptive use on neurobehavioral function and circadian rhythms were studied in healthy young women (n = 25) using a modified constant routine procedure during 24 h of sleep deprivation. Alertness and performance worsened across sleep deprivation and also varied with circadian phase. Entrained circadian rhythms of melatonin and body temperature were evident in women regardless of menstrual phase or oral contraceptive use. No significant difference in melatonin levels, duration, or phase was observed between women in the luteal and follicular phases, whereas oral contraceptives appeared to increase melatonin levels. Temperature levels were higher in the luteal phase and in oral contraceptive users compared to women in the follicular phase. Alertness on the maintenance of wakefulness test and some tests of cognitive performance were poorest for women in the follicular phase especially near the circadian trough of body temperature. These observations suggest that hormonal changes associated with the menstrual cycle and the use of oral contraceptives contribute to changes in nighttime waking neurobehavioral function and temperature level whereas these factors do not appear to affect circadian phase.
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“Exogenous synthetic progestins (in the form of oral contraceptives) have a tendency to increase melatonin secretion [58, 59, 67]”
From Sleep, hormones, and circadian rhythms throughout the menstrual cycle in healthy women and women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (2010) · cites this paper as [67]
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“Most other studies have found no change in the patterns of melatonin secretion (including onset, offset, duration, midpoint, and AUC) across the menstrual cycle in healthy women [47, 60–62, 65, 67].”
From Sleep, hormones, and circadian rhythms throughout the menstrual cycle in healthy women and women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (2010) · cites this paper as [67]
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“Mean circulating melatonin levels and patterns are similar in the follicular and luteal phases [66,78]”
From Temperature regulation in women: Effects of the menstrual cycle (2020) · cites this paper as [78]
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“researchers have found that cognitive performance on a simple reaction task differed in association with core body temperature across the circadian cycle in women on a constant routine, with better performance in the luteal phase when core body temperature was higher [75,76,78].”
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“a relationship between core body temperature and cognitive performance, where the poorest performance coincides with the lowest body temperature, has been shown repeatedly in men [78].”
From Temperature regulation in women: Effects of the menstrual cycle (2020) · cites this paper as [78]
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“This variability in findings could be explained by masking of the endogenous core body temperature rhythm by factors such as environmental light, activity, sleep, and posture [78,81], as well as by the application of different methods and indicators of phase.”
From Temperature regulation in women: Effects of the menstrual cycle (2020) · cites this paper as [78]
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“Further, studies of 24-h body temperature rhythms have shown that women taking oral contraceptives in the active phase of the contraceptive regime have body temperatures similar to those of women in the luteal phase, which are higher than those of men and women in the follicular phase [69,78,79].”
From Temperature regulation in women: Effects of the menstrual cycle (2020) · cites this paper as [78]
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- Authors
- Wright, K. P., & Badia, P.
- Affiliations
- Bowling Green State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wright, Kenneth P
- ORCID
- Wright, Kenneth P
- Venue
- Behavioural Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-09
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 185-194
- ISSN
- 0166-4328 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2044331377
- Semantic Scholar
- b9ba3591baf275dbd9b3358fc25189288ed961c3
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 54
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- 1.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Locations
- Behavioural Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (T32-DK07529, T32DK007529)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- menstrual cycle phases, oral contraceptives, sleep deprivation, alertness, cognitive performance, circadian rhythm, melatonin, body temperature, luteal phase, follicular phase, neurobehavioral function, women
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Arousal, Attention, Body Temperature, Circadian Rhythm, Cognition, Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal, Female, Humans, Melatonin, Menstrual Cycle, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Sleep Deprivation
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