The Use of Testosterone in the Treatment of Depressions
- 30 December 1948
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 239 (27) , 1036-1038
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194812302392704
Abstract
Sex hormones and related substances have been used in the treatment of depressions for a number of years. Although the use of estrogenic substances of various types has yielded disappointing results in deeply depressed women, the injection of testosterone has been known for a decade or more to cause remission in male patients with depressions, provided large doses are used. Danziger and Blank1 reviewed the earlier clinical literature bearing on this point; a more recent review by Danziger et al.2 is also available. The rationale for the use of testosterone in the past has been that of replacement therapy in . . .Keywords
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