“…Furthermore, estrogen replacement therapy has been reported to decrease anxiety in postmenopausal women (Yazici et al, 2003). In men, a similar but less abrupt decline in androgen levels with age is also often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety and depression (Kaminetsky, 2005; Lund et al, 1999; Eskelinen et al, 2007; Cooper and Richie, 2000). Androgen treatment of aging men, or of younger men with decreased testicular production of testosterone (T), ameliorates some of these symptoms (Amore et al, 2009; Genazzani et al, 2004; Seidman et al, 2009; Kaminetsky, 2005; Cooper and Richie, 2000; Kumano, 2007).…”