Mental performance in old age dependent on cortisol and genetic variance in the mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1295-1301

  Kuningas, Maris ^a,b   De Rijk, Roel H ^a,c   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a   Jolles, Jelle ^d   Eline Slagboom, P ^a   Van Heemst, Diana ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cortisol; Depressive symptoms; Glucocorticoid receptor; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID;

EID: 34249026120     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301260     Document Type: Article

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