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Estradiol augmentation for schizophrenia shows benefit in older premenopausal women
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30502
Subject(s) - medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , placebo , adjunctive treatment , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology
Adjunctive treatment with an estradiol patch led to improvement on a range of symptoms in a group of women with schizophrenia, a placebo‐controlled trial has found. The benefits of adjunctive estradiol were generally limited to women older than age 38. Study results were published online July 31 in JAMA Psychiatry .