Acute influences of estrogen and testosterone on divergent and convergent thinking in postmenopausal women

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1538-1545

  Krug, Rosemarie ^a   Mölle, Matthias ^a   Dodt, Christoph ^a   Fehm, Horst L ^a   Born, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG dimensional complexity; Estrogen; Testosterone; Thinking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THINKING; VERBAL MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE; THINKING;

EID: 0042386108     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300200     Document Type: Article

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