Thursday, 7 August 2008

Psychotic Symptoms Relieved With Estrogen Treatment


The estrogen estradiol, in combination with antipsychotic medications,
appears to improve intervention for women with schizophrenia, according to
an article releasedon August 4, 2008 in Archives of General
Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.


Previously, mental illness has been studied in conjunction with many
different hormones, especially estrogen in women. However, the