title: Females' emotionality as reflected in the excretion of the dopamine metabolite HVA during mental stress.
abstract: This paper describes the relationships between psychological assessments of emotionality and massfragmentographic measures of the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid (HVA) in healthy boys and girls. Examination stress induced a significant rise in HVA excretion in both sexes. In girls, but not in boys, significant positive correlations were found between HVA excretion during stress and a set of measures of "negatively coloured" emotionality (distress, anxiety, lack of self-esteem, etc.) obtained at different points in time.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rauste-von Wright
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frankenhaeuser
mesh_terms: D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity / Q000502:physiology*; D006719:Homovanillic Acid / Q000652:urine*; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine; D006719:Homovanillic Acid