Although the effects of estrogen on sexual behavior in mammals are well known, its role on other types of behavior, including cognition, have only recently been recognized. This review summarizes work ...

Experiments reveal how estrogen enhances dopamine and cognitive function. Hormones are known to have powerful effects on the brain, influencing mood, motivation, and decision-making. Yet, the precise ...

A new study on laboratory rats has found that the brain’s ability to learn from rewards is enhanced by the hormone estrogen.

A new study shows that estrogen naturally modulates dopamine signaling in the brain, altering how female rats learn reward cues across the reproductive cycle.

Estrogen fine-tunes the brain’s dopamine system, enhancing learning and reward processing across the female cycle while ...

Researchers have long established that hormones significantly affect the brain, creating changes in emotion, energy levels, ...

On November 10, the Food and Drug Administration announced it will remove the black box warning applied to estrogen-containing products since 2002. As the head of the FDA declared, “After 23 years of ...

Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the skin modestly improved sexual function in early postmenopausal women, according to an article published by JAMA Internal Medicine. Declining estrogen ...

Another menopausal myth is challenged: Women with existing coronary disease do not realize improvement in their cognitive function as a result of taking the most common form of hormone replacement ...

Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve lung function and other outcomes in preterm infants, researchers have found in an animal study. Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve ...

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2009;5(5):507-520. Estrogen not only modulates memory formation and maintenance processes in some contexts, but also biases the learning strategy utilized to solve a task, ...

Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the skin modestly improved sexual function in early postmenopausal women, according to an article. Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the ...