Five patients are presented in whom reproductive abnormalities and depression
were both reversed with imipramine. Although much clinical and experimental work
lies ahead before the relationship of hypothalamic hormones and depression is understood,
current research pertaining to hypothalamic releasing factors provides many clues which fit
quite well with both clinical observations and current theories regarding a neuroendocrinological
pathogenesis of depression.
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