PROLACTIN IN WINTER DEPRESSION

Authors
PARTONEN T
Citation
T. Partonen, PROLACTIN IN WINTER DEPRESSION, Medical hypotheses, 43(3), 1994, pp. 163-164
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Journal title
Medical hypotheses → ACNP
ISSN journal
03069877
Volume
43
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
163 - 164
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-9877(1994)43:3<163:PIWD>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Women with winter depression have low serum prolactin concentration th at is independent of both season and efficient bright light treatment administered in winter. A defect of neural pathways afferent to the pa raventricular nucleus may explain these findings. Estrogen is thought to play a key role in modulation of the rhythmic responses in winter d epression.