Estrogen controls how the brain processes sound

clipped from www.brainmysteries.com Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the hormone estrogen plays a pivotal role in how the brain processes sounds. This is Liisa Tremere, Jin Jeong, and Raphael Pinaud. - University of Rochester "While we are currently conducting further experiments to confirm it, we believe that our findings extrapolate to other sensory systems and vertebrate species," says Pinaud. "If this is the case, we are on the way to showing that estrogen is a key molecule for processing information from all the senses."