Two weeks of transdermal estradiol treatment in postmenopausal elderly women and its effect on memory and mood: Verbal memory changes are associated with the treatment induced estradiol levels

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 727-741

  Wolf, Oliver T ^a,b,c   Kudielka, Brigitte M ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Törber, Sonja ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estradiol; Humans; Memory; Menopause; Replacement

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032805059     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(99)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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