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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 5, 1064-1065, May 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND THE BRAIN: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ROLE OF ESTROGEN.

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Dr Michael Donaghy

University Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

Professor Victor Henderson, of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurogerontology at the University of Southern California, has written a helpful and catholic monograph concerning oestrogen and brain function. This is a relatively unexplored area of interdisciplinary neurological enquiry, for which this book sets the scene successfully. The early text straightforwardly summarizes potentially cloying facts concerning the wide range of oestrogenic effects upon brain biology and chemistry. The numerous figures are clear and informative. Other chapters address the influence of oestrogen on diseases such as stroke or dementia. These disorders are introduced in a simple manner so as to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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