title: Treatment of premenstrual mood symptoms.
abstract: For the sake of improvement in therapeutic approaches for women with cyclical menstrual symptoms, the presentation of premenstrual mood disturbances per se deserves specific consideration. Treatments studies for premenstrual mood symptoms have included conservative, supportive, nutritional, psychotropic, hormonal, and anovulatory measures. An analysis of the literature on premenstrual mood symptoms suggests that a rational schemata for diagnosis can yield a hierarchy of selected individualized treatments based on minimizing the intervention necessary for effective relief.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Rausch
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Parry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs