Novel Phonography-Based Measurement for Fetal Breathing Movement in the Third Trimester.

The detailed assessment of fetal breathing movement (FBM) monitoring can be a pre-indicator of many critical cases in the third trimester of pregnancy. Standard 3D ultrasound monitoring is time-consuming for FBM detection. Therefore, this type of measurement is not common.

The possible protective role of personality dimensions against premenstrual syndrome.

Previous studies suggest that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) differ from those without PMS in personality dimensions, but it is not clear what role personality plays in the background of premenstrual symptomatology. Our purpose was to examine personality dimensions measured by the Tridimensional Character Inventory (TCI) in psychiatrically healthy women not suffering from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) in relation to the severity of distressing and impairing mental and physical symptoms experienced in the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Forty healthy women completed the prospective record of the Impact and Severity of Menstrual Symptoms (PRISM) calendar every evening through three consecutive menstrual cycles and were assigned into LPS (luteal phase symptom) vs.

Association of a trait-like bias towards the perception of negative subjective life events with risk of developing premenstrual symptoms.

Objective: Premenstrual symptoms affect the majority of healthy women. Premenstrual symptomatology has earlier been linked to stress and a state-like alteration in the perception of life events in the late-luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. We hypothesised that there is also a trait-like negative bias in the perception of life events evident throughout the whole cycle which is associated with the likelihood to manifest more marked symptoms in the late-luteal phase of the cycle.

Mood parameters and severe physical symptoms of the female reproductive cycle.

Objective: The cyclic variation of physical and psychological phenomena has been accepted as a natural consequence of the cyclicity of the human female reproductive function. The exact nature of these changes, however, has not been fully understood. The aim of our study was to investigate the fluctuation of psychological and physical symptoms throughout the female reproductive cycle in healthy, non-PMDD women.