Climacteric symptoms do not impair cognitive performances in postmenopause

Maturitas

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-23

  Polo Kantola, Päivi ^a   Portin, Raija ^b   Koskinen, Tuula ^b   Polo, Olli ^b   Irjala, Kerttu ^a   Erkkola, Risto ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

attention; climacteric symptoms; cognition; information processing; menopause; woman

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLIMACTERIUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; SYMPTOM;

AGING; ATTENTION; CLIMACTERIC; COGNITION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 0030918491     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5122(97)01116-X     Document Type: Article

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