Current Medical Research Winter 2007/Spring 2008

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Jeyaseelan , and Rao “Effect of Occupation on Menstrual Cycle Length.”

Hatch Figa-Talamanca , and Salerno “Work Stress and Menstrual Patterns.”

Fenster Waller , Chen Hubbard , Windham Elkin , and Swan “Psychological Stress”; Barson, Mansfield, Koch, Gierach, and West, “Association between Psychological Stress and Menstrual Cycle Characteristics.”

Fenster Waller , Chen Hubbard , Windham Elkin , and Swan “Psychological Stress.”

Barson Mansfield , Koch Gierach , and West “Association between Psychological Stress and Menstrual Cycle Characteristics.”

Sanders K.A. , and Bruce N.W. “Psychosocial Stress and the Menstrual Cycle,” Journal of Biosocial Science 31 (1999): 393-402; P.T. Ellison, S.F. Lipson, G. Jasienska, and P.L. Ellison, “Moderate Anxiety, Whether Acute or Chronic, Is Not Associated with Ovarian Suppression in Healthy, Well-Nourished, Western Women,” American Journal of Physiological Anthropology 134 (2007): 513–519.

Sanders , and Bruce “Psychosocial Stress and the Menstrual Cycle.”

Ellison Lipson , Jasienska , and Ellison “Moderate Anxiety.”

Weschler T. Taking Charge of Your Fertility (New York, NY: Quill of Harpers Colins, 2002); M. Winstein, Your Fertility Signals (St. Louis, Missouri: Smooth Stone Press. 1989); T. Hilgers, The Medical and Surgical Practice of NaProTechnology (Omaha: The Pope Paul VI Institute Press, 2004), “Effects of Stress,” 341-344; E. Clubb and J. Knight, Fertility (Exeter, England: David & Charles. 1999); Couple to Couple League, The Art of Natural Family Planning: Student Guide (Cincinnati: The Couple to Couple League, 2007), 138-140.

Weschler Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

Hilgers The Medical and Surgical Practice, 341–344; Clubb and Knight, Fertility.

Hilgers The Medical and Surgical Practice, 341–344.

Clubb and Knight, Fertility.

Weschler Taking Charge of Your Fertility; Winstein, Your Fertility Signals; Couple to Couple League, The Art of Natural Family Planning, 138-140.

Couple to Couple League, The Art of Natural Family Planning.

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Liu “Anovulation of CNS Origin.”

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