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Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface xi
1. History of the premenstrual disorders 1
PM Shaughn O’Brien and Khaled MK Ismail
2. The diagnosis of PMS/PMDD – the current debate 9
Uriel Halbreich
3. Premenstrual syndrome: a case of serotonergic dysfunction? 21
Elias Eriksson
4. Quantification of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder 27
Vandana Dhingra and PM Shaughn O’Brien
5. Prevalence, impact on morbidity, and disease burden 37
Teri Pearlstein
6. Comorbidity of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder with other
psychiatric conditions 49
Kimberly A Yonkers and Kara Lynn McCunn
7. The clinical presentation and course of premenstrual symptoms 55
Ellen W Freeman
8. Physiology of the menstrual cycle 63
Robert L Reid and Dean A Van Vugt
9. Neurotransmitter physiology: the basics for understanding premenstrual syndrome 69
Andrea J Rapkin and John Kuo