Louanne Brizendine

Louann Brizendine, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist at the
University of California, San Francisco, is the founder of
the Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was
previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and is a
graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and the
University of California, Berkeley, in neurobiology. She has
written in professional texts and journals, and she lectures
widely to the public and in the media on the female brain.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and
son.