Effects of cortisol suppression on sleep-associated consolidation of neutral and emotional memory

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 885-893

  Wagner, Ullrich ^a   Degirmenci, Metin ^a   Drosopoulos, Spyridon ^a   Perras, Boris ^a   Born, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Emotion; Memory consolidation; Metyrapone; PTSD; Sleep

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; METYRAPONE; NOREPINEPHRINE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 29044432867     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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