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Sex hormones and mental health
Hormones are widely considered to cause powerful psychological effects and because of this psy chiatrists may be asked to advise general practition ers, consultants in other specialities or patients about the relationship between hormones (including sex hormones) and psychiatric disorder. Sex hor mones may be relevant to psychiatry in three ways: (a) Sex hormones may play a role in the pathophy...
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Humans rely on internal representations to solve a variety of spatial problems including navigation. Navigation employs specific information to compose a representation of space that is distinct from that obtained through static bird’s-eye or horizontal perspectives. The ability to point to on-route locations, off-route locations, and the route origin illustrates the unique types of spatial kno...
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The normal physiology of the female reproductive system involves a hypothalamus that secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)in a pulsatile manner, a pituitary gland that can be stimulated by the hypothalamus to regularly secrete both luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), an ovary that has both methodical enzymatic system and steroidogenesis for producing the se...
متن کاملSex hormones and hypertension.
Gender has an important influence on blood pressure, with premenopausal women having a lower arterial blood pressure than age-matched men. Compared with premenopausal women, postmenopausal women have higher blood pressures, suggesting that ovarian hormones may modulate blood pressure. However, whether sex hormones are responsible for the observed gender-associated differences in arterial blood ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.5.2.126