Cognitive impairment and its association with homocysteine plasma levels in females with eating disorders - Findings from the HEaD-study

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1591-1598

  Frieling, H ^a,b   Roschke B ^a   Kornhuber, J ^a   Wilhelm, J ^a   Romer K D ^a   Gruss B ^a   Bonsch D ^a   Hillemacher, T ^a   De Zwaan, M ^b   Jacoby, G E ^c   Bleich, S ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Hospital for Eating Disorders   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Eating disorder; Homocysteine; Memory impairment

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BULIMIA NERVOSA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEX FACTORS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 27144529054     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-005-0392-3     Document Type: Article

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