Testosterone and cognition in elderly men: A single testosterone injection blocks the practice effect in verbal fluency, but has no effect on spatial or verbal memory

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 650-654

  Wolf, Oliver T ^a,b,c   Preut, Ragnar ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Kudielka, Brigitte M ^a   Schürmeyer, Thomas H ^a   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; Cognition; Gender differences; Humans; Replacement; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TESTOSTERONE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034176905     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00145-6     Document Type: Article

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