Escitalopram treatment of menopausal hot flashes
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Imaging and menopausal hot flashes
Farrell recently published an interesting review paper on imaging human brain responses during heating and cooling. Here, he discussed our work on imaging such responses during menopausal hot flashes (HFs). Hot flashes are triggered by small elevations in core body temperature acting within a greatly reduced interthreshold zone in symptomatic menopausal women. This reduction is due to estrogen ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Menopause
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1072-3714
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820ccae9