Serum gonadal steroid reactivity to acute psychosocial stress in panic disorder patients.
Knowledge on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis reactivity to acute psychosocial stress remains limited. The current study evaluated whether testosterone, progesterone, and estradiol increase in response to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), and whether these responses are attenuated in panic disorder (PD)...