Estrogen Withdrawal Increases Postpartum Anxiety via Oxytocin Plasticity in the Paraventricular Hypothalamus and Dorsal Raphe Nucleus
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.11.016
Abstract: BACKGROUND Estrogen increases dramatically during pregnancy but quickly drops below prepregnancy levels at birth and remains suppressed during the postpartum period. Clinical and rodent work suggests that this postpartum drop in estrogen results in an… read more here.
Keywords: raphe nucleus; anxiety; estrogen withdrawal; estrogen ... See more keywords