Progesterone reduces wakefulness in sleep EEG and has no effect on cognition in healthy postmenopausal women

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1124-1131

  Schussler P ^a   Kluge, M ^a   Yassouridis, A ^a   Dresler, M ^a   Held, K ^a   Zihl, J ^a,b   Steiger, A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Postmenopause; Progesterone; Sleep

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UTROGEST;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REM SLEEP; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERBAL MEMORY; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGESTERONE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 49049098979     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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