High levels of estrogen may help protect a woman from mood disorders, while low levels of the hormone can make a woman more susceptible to trauma at certain times in her menstrual cycle, according to new research by Harvard and Emory University neuroscientists. Mohammed Milad, HMS associate professor of psychiatry and Kelimer Lebron-Milad, HMS instructor in psychology, both of Massachusetts General
Hospital, led the study.
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