Biological markers of women vulnerability to depression /
العلامات الحيوية التى تجعل السيدات اكثر عرضة للإصابة بالاكتئاب
Dalia Mohamed Shawer Supervised Fatma Abd Ellatif Moussa , Sara Mahmood Elkateb , Mohammed Elsayed Eltawel
- Cairo : Dalia Mohamed Shawer , 2006
- 183P ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Neuropsychiatry
It has been well known for at least that is an interaction between thyroid function , estrogen hormone and depressive illness Furthermore , L - thyronine and estrogen hormones are used as adjuvant to antidepressants It was found that patients with low normal range of thyroid hormones were vulnerable to depression , whereas , menopausal women are more vulnerable , knowing that depression is buffered by estrogen effect