Prenatal gonadal hormones and schizophrenia in men and women.
Prenatal gonadal hormones organize human brains in sexually dimorphic patterns which are subtly different from each other. These subtle differences, in interaction with the environment, may be responsible for the somewhat different expression of schizophrenic illness in the two sexes.
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000196:embryology*; D005260:Female; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012733:Sex Differentiation
D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones