Brizendine
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Louann Brizendine M.D., is a neuropsychiatrist and the author of The Female Brain published by Morgan Road Books in 2006. Her academic credentials include completing her degree in Neurobiology at UC Ber keley, attending Yale School of Medicine and completing a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Psychiatry. She served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1985-88. She then joined the faculty of UCSF Medical School at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. At UCSF, Dr. Brizendine pursues active clinical, teaching, writing and research activities. In 1994, she founded the UCSF The Women's and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic [[1]] and continues to serve as it's directo r. The Women's and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic is a 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. Additionally, she teache s courses to medical students and residents addressing the topics of the brain e ffects of hormones, mood disorders, anxiety problems and sexual interest changes due to hormones throughout the country. She is an expert on the effects of testosterone on sex drive in both premenopau sal and postmenopausal women.
