The role of reproductive hormones in maintaining cognition

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 437-453

  Greene, Robert A ^b   Dixon, Whitney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Specialty Care for Women   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 0036737120     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8545(02)00019-0     Document Type: Review

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