Are oestrogens useful for the treatment of depression in women?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-71

  Studd, John ^a   Panay, Nick ^b  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

depression; hormone related depression; HRT; menopause

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BUSERELIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DANAZOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE PLUS NORGESTREL; ESTROGEN; FLUOXETINE; GESTAGEN; GOSERELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE; PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE; TIBOLONE;

ANOVULATION; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MOOD CHANGE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REMISSION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYPHYLAXIS; VIRILIZATION;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249086970     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.11.001     Document Type: Review

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