Biomedical subjects

K Poppelaars

Publications and source records attributed to K Poppelaars.

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PubMed1992

Psychosocial aspects of hyperprolactinemia.

Fourteen mildly hyperprolactinemic women and 14 matched controls were compared with respect to biographical data, self-reported emotional and somatic well-being, and cortisol production. The patients had significantly more often experienced a separation from their parents in childhood. No differences were found for cortisol levels and emotional and somatic well-being. Future studies also should focus on personality, coping, and defense mechanisms in order to explain these contrasting findings.

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PubMed1992

Prolactin and weeping.

Fourteen women with functional hyperprolactinemia and an equal number of matched healthy controls completed a questionnaire on weeping behavior. Contrary to expectations the patient group were not more prone to weeping than the controls. In addition, their appraisal of weeping behavior (as a way to tension release and relief) did not differ from the controls. It is concluded that moderately elevated prolactin levels, although causing somatic disturbances such as amennorrhea and galactorrhea, do not affect the weeping threshold.

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