DHEA-S selectively impairs contextual-fear conditioning: Support for the antiglucocorticoid hypothesis

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 512-517

  Fleshner, Monika ^a   Pugh, C Rachal ^a   Tremblay, Darren ^a   Rudy, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FEAR; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030915625     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.512     Document Type: Article

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