Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6695, 1998, Pages 787-790

  De Quervain, Dominique J F ^a   Roozendaal, Benno ^a   McGaugh, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032552049     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29542     Document Type: Article

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