Glucocorticoid effects on memory function over the human life span

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 491-513

  Heffelfinger, Amy K ^b   Newcomer, John W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035376202     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579401003054     Document Type: Article

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