The relationship between longitudinal declines in Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate concentrations and cognitive performance in older men

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2193-2198

  Moffat, Scott D ^a   Zonderman, Alan B ^a   Harman, S Mitchell ^a   Blackman, Marc R ^b   Kawas, Claudia ^b   Resnick, Susan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0034710120     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.160.14.2193     Document Type: Article

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