<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2fc1735d-5326-4285-b465-267cc88bb012/A2F5287A-658F-4A9F-91DF-6CEB87B8C92C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC" href="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC" style="font-size: 11px;">www.webmd.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Aug. 4, 2008 -- Schizophrenic women who get an estrogen patch along with their regular antipsychotic <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/drugs/index-drugs.aspx" object_type="" keywordsetid="7054" keywordid="26921" href="http://www.webmd.com/drugs/index-drugs.aspx" externalid="09D1C68D81D74991" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31476" chronic_id="">medications</A> have fewer symptoms than women who get inactive placebo patches.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Kulkarni took notice. She and her colleagues have now completed a series of small studies showing that estrogen can be very effective in reducing symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Kulkarni is quick to add that one patient's experience does not prove the treatment will work for others. But she's seen rapid improvement in other women who were resistant to standard treatment, particularly those who developed schizophrenia just after having a child.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The female sex hormone estrogen has important effects on chemical signals in the brain. These signals go haywire in schizophrenia.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20080804/hormone-therapy-for-schizophrenia?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Women's first episodes of schizophrenia occur later in life than men's, suggesting a protective role for estrogen.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A2F5287A-658F-4A9F-91DF-6CEB87B8C92C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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