Schizophrenia: Reproductive Hormones and the Brain
- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 159 (5) , 713-719
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.5.713
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Onset of schizophrenia occurs during the reproductive period in more than 80% of those affected. The author reviews neuroendocrine and physiologic events that occur in the basal forebrai...Keywords
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