Negative association of testosterone on spatial visualization in 35 to 80 year old men

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 376-386

  Yonker, Julie E ^a   Eriksson, Elias ^b   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c   Herlitz, Agneta ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Steroid hormones; Testosterone; Visuospatial ability

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33746429635     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70364-2     Document Type: Article

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