Treatment of premenstrual mood symptoms.

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.