Working memory for emotional facial expressions: Role of estrogen in humans and non-human primates

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 129-148

  Gasbarri, Antonella ^a   Pompili, Assunta ^a   D'Onofrio, Armida ^a   Abreu, Carina Tostes ^b   Tavares, Maria Clotilde H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Capuchin monkey; Delayed matching to sample; Delayed non matching to sample; Emotional facial expressions; Estrogens; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PLACEBO;

BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; EMOTION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 48849117331     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2008.19.2-3.129     Document Type: Review

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