Louann Brizendine's profile

Louann Brizendine, M.D.completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, attended Yale School of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and UCSF Medical School. At UCSF, Dr. Brizendine pursues active clinical, teaching, writing and research activities. She founded the UCSF Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic and continues to serve as it's director. The Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic is a unique psychiatric clinic designed to assess and treat women of all ages experiencing disruption of mood, energy, anxiety, sexual function and well-being due to hormonal influences on the brain. Teen girls with mood, anxiety, eating, concentration or depression symptoms related to the hormone changes of the menstrual cycle, PMS, come to the new Teen Girl's Mood and Hormone Clinic. http://www.ucsf.edu/brizlab/ see THE FEMALE BRAIN