Cortisol and memory retrieval in humans: Influence of emotional valence

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1032, Issue , 2004, Pages 195-197

  Wolf, Oliver T ^a   Kuhlmann, S ^a   Buss, C ^b   Hellhammer, D H ^b   Kirschbaum, C ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Emotional valence; Memory; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STRESS;

EID: 14544300010     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. DE KLOET, E.R., M.S. OITZL & M. JOELS. 1999. Stress and cognition: are corticosteroids good or bad guys? Trends Neurosci. 22: 422-426.
2. LUPIEN, S.J. & M. LEPAGE. 2001. Stress, memory, and the hippocampus: can't live with it, can't live without it. Behav. Brain Res. 127: 137-158.
3. ROOZENDAAL, B. 2000. Glucocorticoids and the regulation of memory consolidation. Psychoneuroendocrinology 25: 213-238.
4. WOLF, O.T. 2003. HPA axis and memory. Best Pract. Res. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 17: 287-299.
5. ROOZENDAAL, B. 2002. Stress and memory: opposing effects of glucocorticoids on memory consolidation and memory retrieval. Neurobiol Learn. Mem. 78: 578-595.
6. DE QUERVAIN, D.J., B. ROOZENDAAL, R.M. NITSCH, et al. 2000. Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in humans. Nat. Neurosci. 3: 313-314.
7. WOLF, O.T., A. CONVIT, P.F. MCHUGH, et al. 2001. Cortisol differentially affects memory in young and elderly men. Behav. Neurosci. 105: 1002-1011.
8. CAHILL, L. 2003. Sex-related influences on the neurobiology of emotionally influenced memory Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 985: 163-173.
9. BUCHANAN, T.W. & W.R. LOVALLO. 2001. Enhanced memory for emotional material following stress-level cortisol treatment in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology 26: 307-317.
10. ABERCROMBIE, H.C., N.H. KALIN, M.E. THUROW, et al. 2003. Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral information. Behav. Neurosci. 117: 505-516.
11. TOPS, M., P.G. VAN DER, D. BAAS, et al. 2003. Acute cortisol effects on immediate free recall and recognition of nouns depend on stimulus valence. Psychophysiology 40: 167-173.
12. BUSS, C., O.T. WOLF, J. WITT, et al. 2004. Autobiographic memory impairment following acute cortisol administration. Psychoneuroendocrinology 29: 1093-1096.
13. KUHLMANN, S., C. KIRSCHBAUM & O.T. WOLF. 2004. Effects of oral cortisol treatment in healthy young women on memory retrieval of negative and neutral words. Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. In press.