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

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Is Testosterone in Pregnancy a Protection Against Depression?

In some situations, test osterone is experimentally given small doses for actually increasing a aggression and increasing such things as muscle mass. In psychotic conditions like scisophrenia, more test Osterone is bad. The other holmon that is at play here is in order to feed the new born, the mother has to produce milk. To produce breast milk, there is another hormone called pro lactin which creates the breast milk. Now this hormo also has an effect in the brain, and it can be very depressive in the brain.

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