Neuro-Energetic Correlates of Mental and Emotional Phenomena (Manifestations) of the Climacteric Syndrome

Abstract

Introduction. Studying psychoneurophysiological correlates in perimenopausal women is of great theoretical and practical importance, since it may help in identifying common and gender-specific patterns of aging. The menopausal syndrome and the neurophysiological substrate underlying the phenomena of psychological maladjustment in menopausal women merit special attention. This study reveals previously unknown neuro-energetic correlates of psycho-emotional characteristics of the climacteric syndrome. Methods. This study involved menopausal women with and without manifestations of the menopausal syndrome and reproductive-age women with the normal menstrual cycle. Using the questioning method the authors examined the respondents’ personality traits. After averaging over groups, these personality characteristics were compared with the constant potential level (CPL) in frontal, central, occipital, right and left temporal regions of the cortex, which was registered by the Neuro-energo-cartograph NEC-5 hardware/software complex. The CPL was assessed by means of a special embedded math program. This helped to distinguish the local and the average CPLs, CPL gradients between unipolar values and to map the obtained data on the computer screen. Results. The findings of the study indicated a positive correlation between the expression of situational anxiety and unmotivated aggressiveness and the increased CPL in the occipital and temporal cortex in women with the climacteric syndrome. Discussion. For the first time in the study of the female climacterium, the use of registration and neuro-energetic mapping of the CPLs in various regions of the cerebral cortex and their correlations with psycho-emotional characteristics helped to identify the intensity and topography of energy metabolism in the brain, which is an integral neurophysiological substrate for psycho-emotional manifestations of the climacteric syndrome. The registration of the CPLs enabled authors to correlate the intensity and topography of energy metabolism in various regions of the cortex with psycho-emotional characteristics of the climacteric syndrome.

Keywords

• перименопауза
• менопауза
• климактерический синдром
• психоэмоциональный статус
• декстральная поведенческая асимметрия
• постоянный потенциал
• энергетический обмен мозга
• личностная тревожность
• нейроэнергокартирование коры мозга
• энергетическая асимметрия полушарий