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TITLE: Anxiety disorders in women: gender-related modulation of neurobiology and behavior.
AUTHOR: Shear MK
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.
SOURCE: Semin Reprod Endocrinol 1997 Feb;15(1):69-76
NLM CIT. ID: 97218542
ABSTRACT: The study of psychobiology of gender is in its infancy, but already there are emerging findings of interest to clinicians and researchers in the area of anxiety disorders. There is much work yet to be done, but findings provide initial support for hypotheses that ovarian and other gonadal and maternal hormones play important regulatory roles in determining behavior as well as neurotransmitter function in women. These regulatory effects clearly involve areas known to be important in the onset and maintenance of anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders. It is important to note that although neurophysiologic mechanisms are definitely in need of study and attention, this should not occur at the expense of further psychosocial research in this area. Social changes in gender-role functioning may well produce important neurobiologic changes, and this may be the most effective and efficient way of producing such changes, which can ultimately reduce women's risk of anxiety disorders.
MAIN MESH SUBJECTS: Anxiety Disorders/*PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY
Neurosecretory Systems/*PHYSIOPATHOLOGY
*Personality
ADDITIONAL MESH SUBJECTS: Adult
Brain/ANATOMY & HISTOLOGY/PHYSIOLOGY
Female
Human
Prevalence
Progesterone/PHYSIOLOGY
Serotonin/PHYSIOLOGY
Sex Factors
Social Behavior
PUBLICATION TYPES: JOURNAL ARTICLE
LANGUAGE: Eng
REGISTRY NUMBERS: 50-67-9 (Serotonin)
57-83-0 (Progesterone)

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On Sabbatical!

When my office lease expired at the end of 2004, I decided to turn it into a "sabbatical" from my private practice. Many years ago, in my grandfather's 89th year of life, he told me, "John, it is important to smell the roses while you can still smell them." His life gave living a very good reputation. It is also true that the pursuit of that philosophy required my grandfather to to re-open his assay office/ore market in Wickenburg, Arizona as a 75-year-old because he had run a little short of retirement money. Thus, if blessed with his luck and health, I'll be back.. --jjh

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