Female-Specific Mood Disorders
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Female-specific mood disorders.
Hormones are partial determinants of certain sexually dimorphic behaviors and interact with psychosocial, environmental, and other physiologic factors. The part played by sex hormones in the direct control of overt human behavior is, compared with that found in lower animals, slight and less readily definable. In humans, these hormones, although necessary for maintenance of libido and sexual be...
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عنوان ژورنال: CNS Spectrums
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1092-8529,2165-6509
DOI: 10.1017/s1092852900007884