Effects of aging and hormonal status on bimanual motor coordination in the rhesus monkey

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-193

  Lacreuse, Agnès ^a,b   Woods, Courtney E ^b,c   Herndon, James G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia State University   (United States)

^c SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Handedness; Macaque; Manual strategies; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; OVARIECTOMY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845380838     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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