Sex hormone 'can relieve schizophrenia'

Posted March 16th on theage.com.au:

Hormone patches used to help older women through menopause can also radically improve the most debilitating symptoms of schizophrenia, a trial on Australian women has found.

A study to be presented at a major international women's mental health conference in Melbourne on Monday has shown for the first time that the female sex hormone, oestrogen, dramatically reduces hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder in women with the severe mental illness.

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