Seasonal levels of melatonin, thyroid hormones, mood, and cognition near the arctic circle

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 695-699

  Pääkkönen, Tiina ^a,c   Leppäluoto, Juhani ^a   Mäkinen, Tiina M ^a,b   Rintamäki, Hannu ^a,c   Ruokonen, Aimo ^a   Hassi, Juhani ^a   Palinkas, Lawrence A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b CENTRE FOR MILITARY MEDICINE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Mental performance; Thyrotropin; Thyroxine; Triiodothyronine

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; MELATONIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGER; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COGNITION; COLD EXPOSURE; DARKNESS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FATIGUE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POLAR TRIIODOTHYRONINE SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RESPONSE TIME; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TASK PERFORMANCE; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARCTIC REGIONS; COGNITION; COLD CLIMATE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; PHOTOPERIOD; REACTION TIME; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEASONS; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 46249103474     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2148.2008     Document Type: Article

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