A University of Alberta nursing professor is leading a research consideration to determine the physical.A University of Alberta nursing professor is leading a research consideration to determine the physical, psychological and social impacts of depression forward women. Dr. Kathy Hegadoren is conducting the first research in the U of As just discovered mental health/women's health laboratory to increase understanding of wherefore women are twice as likely to experience depression than men Hegadoren will explore the reasons wherefore many women don't find antidepressant medicines to be effective. "Drugs have traditionally been proofed on male animals and male human volunteers" says Hegadoren in a U of A release. "This is partly because male hormone flushs are more stable. But the biological environment of females is quite different than that of males, and women many times do not respond to unsalable articles the same way men do." Hegadoren is the first Canadian nursing professor to train in neurobiology and neuropsychopharmacology, and the barely scientist from a nursing faculty to receive research funding from the strange Opportunities program of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. Copyright Alberta Association of Registered pampers May/Jun 1999 |
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