Mood symptoms and cognitive performance in women estrogen users and nonusers and men

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1826-1830

  Miller, Karen J ^a   Conney, Janet C ^a   Rasgon, Natalie L ^a   Fairbanks, Lynn A ^a   Small, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estrogen; Memory; Mood

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036842772     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50511.x     Document Type: Article

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