Sex hormones affect spatial abilities during the menstrual cycle

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1245-1250

  Hausmann, Markus ^a   Slabbekoorn, Ditte ^b   Van Goozen, Stephanie H M ^b   Cohen Kettenis, Peggy T ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0034538551     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.6.1245     Document Type: Article

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