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Sex hormones and mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Louise Golightly  and
Allan Young
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Hormones are widely considered to cause powerful psychological effects and because of this psychiatrists may be asked to advise general practitioners, consultants in other specialities or patients about the relationship between hormones (including sex hormones) and psychiatric disorder. Sex hormones may be relevant to psychiatry in three ways:

(a) Sex hormones may play a role in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders.

(b) These agents may be utilised for treatment of psychiatric disorder.

(c) Administration of sex hormones may cause psychiatric side-effects.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , March 1999 , pp. 126 - 134
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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