Relevant Citations:
Mulligan, E. M., Eisenlohr-Moul, T. A., Nagpal, A., Schmalenberger, K., Petersen, N., Eckel, L., Hajcak, G. (November 2023). Characterizing menstrual cycle changes in event-related potentials associated with positive and negative valence systems: The Reward Positivity and the Error-related Negativity. Oral presentation at the Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Mulligan, E. M., Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Eckel, L., Hacjak, G. (September 2022). Menstrual cycle modulation of neural reward responsiveness and its associations with anhedonia. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Chicago, IL.
*Evans, E., *Keith, L., Mulligan, E. M., Hajcak, G. (October 2021). The effects of menstrual cycle phase on the late positive potential to erotic images. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Presented virtually due to COVID-19.
Mulligan, E. M., Hajcak, G., Klawohn, J., Nelson, B., Meyer, A. (2019). Effects of menstrual cycle phase on associations between the error-related negativity and checking symptoms in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 103, 233-240.
Mulligan, E. M., Nelson, B. D., Infantolino, Z., Luking, K. R., Sharma, R., Hajcak, G. (2018). Effects of menstrual cycle phase on electrocortical response to reward and depressive symptoms in women. Psychophysiology, e13268.
Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) across the Menstrual Cycle
Funded by a predoctoral T32 (T32 MH093311) at Florida State University, this study examines whether ERP indices of reward sensitivity, error sensitivity, and emotional processing are modulated by various phases of the menstrual cycle.
The goal of this project is to determine whether naturally occurring ovarian hormone fluctuations have effects on neural systems underlying depression and anxiety, such as the frontostriatal reward circuit. This study also facilitates the exploration of whether there are individual differences in trajectories of ERP change across the menstrual cycle, in line with increasing evidence of dimensionality and heterogeneity in neural sensitivity to hormone flux.