Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral information

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 505-516

  Abercrombie, Heather C ^a,b   Kalin, Ned H ^a,b   Thurow, Marchell E ^a   Rosenkranz, Melissa A ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SALIVA LEVEL; EMOTION; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SALIVA;

EID: 0038174899     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.505     Document Type: Article

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