Perimenstrual Symptoms and Emotional Dysregulation in Autism

"Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorder (SCID) :~The SCID is a 90-item semi-structured interview, covering all 10 categories of personality disorder as described in the DSM-5. Each item is rated on a three-point scale: absent, subclinical level and present."

Participants will complete a battery of self-report questionnaires, assessing emotional dysregulation (including SRD, the primary endpoint), childhood adversity, anxiety, depression, and premenstrual symptoms.

"Cognitive assessment, coupled with the recording of physiological parameters (Biopac).~Participants will complete a battery of neuropsychological tests targeting emotional processes. These tests will make it possible to evaluate the hot component of executive functioning, i.e. specifically involved in the processing of socio-emotional information. Autobiographical verbal fluences and the emotional Hayling test will be used to measure initiation and inhibition processes, respectively."

A momentary ecological evaluation protocol will be proposed between visits V1 and V4 in order to assess the emotional and symptomatic dynamics in a context of daily life. During two menstrual cycles, subjects will be invited, via their smartphone, to take daily semi-random readings (indicated by SMS) of their subjective (4 times/day), but also spontaneous emotional experiences