Memory functioning among midlife women: Observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study

Menopause

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 257-265

  Woods, Nancy Fugate ^a   Mitchell, Ellen Sullivan ^a   Adams, Cynthia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Memory; Menopausal transition; Perimenopause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; MOOD; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRESS;

EID: 0033918406     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042192-200007040-00008     Document Type: Article

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