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#560 Jayashri Kulkarni: Women's Mental Health, Depression, and Clinical Research

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Should Psychiatrists Care About Gender Differences?

There's that link between the pill and depression. But could it be the case also that oral contraceptives might improve s mental well being in certain ways or not? Yes, particularly in the woman who has that psyclical fluctuation of mental health because of the psyclical variations in ostrogen. In particular, if you flatten ha thiser with the homones, if you just give the pill, it causes the cycle to disappear,. then that improve her mental health. So we need to be very careful in standing the gender impact. And we should be designing treatments for the future that take that into account.

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