Estrogen

- e un hormone

- when flows in woman's brain-> women focus intensely on emotions & communication

- produced by ovaries (s: female brain, ch1); in a 18months old ovaries produce as much estrogen as in adult females

- stops being produced at 2 1/2 y old (nu stim de ce) (s: female brain, ch1)

- produced again in full force in teen years in girls. estrogen is high in first two weeks of a menstrual cycle (girls is interested socially, relaxed), progesterone is released in last two weeks of menstrual cycle (girl is irritable, wants to be left alone)

- sets timing for everything at puberty. impacts even the daily light-dark cycle (la cat de duci la culcare) pt fete, controlat de suprachiasmatic nucleus.

- controleaza even the growth hormone.

- is produced in first two weeks of the menstrual cycle (estrogen phase of cycle). there is a 25% more growth in connections in Hippocamp in this time!