Hormonal correlates of hand preference in free-ranging primates

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 502-507

  Westergaard, G C ^a   Chavanne, T J ^a   Lussier, I D ^a   Suomi, S J ^b   Higley, J D ^c  

^a LABS of Virginia Inc   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Development; Laterality; Rhesus macaques; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONES; HYDROCORTISONE; LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033797336     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(00)00141-X     Document Type: Article

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