Clinical Study

Emotion Processing in Women with Schizophrenia Is Menstrual Cycle Phase and Affective Valence Dependent: An fMRI Study

Table 2

Hormone levels in the subgroup of women tested during both phases of the menstrual cycle.

Follicular phasePLuteal phaseP
Control womenSchizophrenia womenControl womenSchizophrenia women
(N = 15)(N = 17)(N = 15)(N = 17)
MSDMSDMSDMSD

Estrogen450.13587.63228.45162.580.15256.00236.65197.34130.670.39
Progesterone2.112.741.451.120.3622.9926.4212.0810.440.13

M: mean; SD: standard deviation; Plasmatic estrogen is in pmol/L; plasmatic progesterone is in nmol/L.