Estrogen is a brain excitant, present use creates an effect on verbal fluency and other signs of awareness of the environment

Negation: Estrogen is not a brain excitant, or its present use does not create an effect on verbal fluency and other signs of awareness of the environment 0 0 0

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Estrogen is a brain excitant, present use creates an effect on verbal fluency and other signs of awareness of the environment 1 0 2

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Alzheimer-type dementia is different from other dementias, but it overlaps with them, and with age-related and stress-related changes in other organs 1 0 2

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Estrogen is a brain excitant, present use creates an effect on verbal fluency and other signs of awareness of the environment 1 0 2

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Alzheimer-type dementia is different from other dementias, but it overlaps with them, and with age-related and stress-related changes in other organs 1 0 2

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Imbalances of other steroids, including cortisol and DHEA, develop as cells compensate for pregnenolone deficiency 1 0 2

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Estrogen is a brain excitant, present use creates an effect on verbal fluency and other signs of awareness of the environment 1 0 2

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Estrogen is intimately involved with the formation of the egg cell and wherever it operates, it increases both the quantity of water and the disorder of the water 1 0 2

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Many chemicals can produce effects similar to estrogen 1 0 1 Unpleasant consequences of estrogen excess resemble some events of aging 1 0 2 Estrogen steals oxygen from mitochondria, shifting patterns of growth and adaptation 1 0 2 Serotonin, which is closely associated with estrogen, seems to be an important inducer of functionally suppressed states such as hibernation, social subordination, learned helplessness and depression 1 0 2 Estrogen increases and acts through the inflammatory mediators, serotonin and histamine, to increase vascular leakiness 1 0 2 Estrogen sets the brain's temperature regulator lower but can also lower the metabolic rate through serotonin and other mediators 1 0 2 Many toxic chemicals and stressful physical processes can activate the same functions as estrogen 1 0 2 Estrogen affects our energetics and structure, and how those processes relate to aging, atrophy, cancerization, etc 1 0 2 Exposure to estrogen in middle-age increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age 1 0 2 Estrogen and acetylcholine are excitotoxins 1 0 2