As menopause approaches, fluctuating estrogen increases sensitivity to stress, depression

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

If you’re feeling a little blue during the transition to menopause, there’s good reason, according to a new study being reported online today inMenopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS). The study from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the estradiol (a form […]

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