Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the variability in psychomotor task performance in women in reference to the menstrual cycle. METHODS: One hundred and eighty young women with spontaneous regular menstrual period of 30 days duration and 20 young men were assessed in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq during 2003. RESULTS: Women had significantly lower recognition as well as motor reaction time than men with wide inter and intraindividual variations. Women also had a lower critical flicker fusion frequency threshold than men with more variation. The changes in psychomotor performance are not specific for a certain phase of the menstrual cycle. CONCLUSION: Spontaneously menstruating young women are not good participants for psychomotor performance studies because of wide intra- and interindividual variations.
Article Type
Research Article
First Page
17
Last Page
22
Recommended Citation
Al-Nimer, Marwan S.
(2008)
"Intraindividual and interindividual variations in psychomotor task performance in spontaneously menstruating women,"
Neurosciences: Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/1658-3183.1549