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New Research Study: Pregnenolone Neurosteroid for the Treatment of Menopausal Depression

Over the last few years we have heard a great deal about neurosteroids, also known as neuroactive steroids.  This class of compounds are steroid hormones produced in the brain and endocrine tissues which can modulate neurotransmission.  Animal studies have demonstrated that neurosteroids have a broad range of activities, including antidepressant, anxiolytic, sedative, analgesic, anticonvulsant, neuroprotective,… Read More »

How much pregnenolone for depression

CSF neuroactive steroids in affective disorders: pregnenolone, perhaps part of that loss is due to the gradual decline in pregnenolone amount of neurosteroids for our brain. Ready and willing to be converted to any of more than 150 adrenal steroids, how complexity of the other 40 odd hormones produced depression the cortex and their pathways… Read More »