Publications by authors named "C A Otte"
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- Women with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have higher baseline testosterone levels, prompting researchers to explore the relationship between salivary testosterone and specific BPD symptoms.
- The study involved 98 women with BPD, assessing their testosterone levels and emotional symptoms using self-rating scales for BPD severity and depression.
- Results indicated that higher testosterone was linked to overall increased symptom severity, particularly associated with negative self-perception and depressive feelings, rather than the expected aggressive or impulsive behaviors.
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- The study examines how social exclusion affects prosocial behavior and testosterone levels in female patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared to healthy controls.
- It finds that female patients with BPD have elevated testosterone levels both before and after social exclusion, and that these levels are not influenced by the experience of exclusion.
- Additionally, despite undergoing social exclusion, patients with BPD demonstrated higher prosocial behaviors, like sharing money, which may indicate a strategy to maintain their social relationships.
Altered fear conditioning and extinction learning are discussed as key etiological features in anxiety disorders. Women have an increased risk for anxiety disorders and fear conditioning has been shown to be influenced by the menstrual cycle phase and circulating gonadal hormones. The objective of our study was to investigate the effects of separate and combined estradiol and progesterone administration on fear extinction in healthy women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Overweight and obesity are common in the veteran population. Medical management with semaglutide, orlistat, liraglutide, phentermine, phentermine/topiramate, and naltrexone/bupropion is increasingly common. This study expands on a 2021 study and evaluates medication effectiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough early studies were able to demonstrate a negative impact of stress on working memory performance, present research findings are heterogeneous. Numerous further studies found no effects or even improved performance, with the direction of these stress effects likely depending on the underlying biological mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate receptor-specific effects, as part of the stress-induced cortisol response, on working memory performance.
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