Differential Effects of Adrenergic and Corticosteroid Hormonal Systems on Human Short- and Long-Term Declarative Memory for Emotionally Arousing Material

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 420-428

  Maheu, Françoise S ^a,b   Joober, Ridha ^c   Beaulieu, Serge ^c   Lupien, Sonia J ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; PROPRANOLOL;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; METYRAPONE; PROPRANOLOL; SALIVA;

EID: 1842426952     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.2.420     Document Type: Article

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