FDG-PET analysis of amygdalar-cortical network covariance during pre- versus post-menopausal estrogen levels: Potential relevance to resting state networks, mood, and cognition

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-474

  Ottowitz, William E ^a   Derro, David ^b   Dougherty, Darin D ^b   Lindquist, Martin A ^a   Fischman, Alan J ^b   Hall, Janet E ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Depression; Estradiol; Functional connectivity; Functional neuroimaging; Neurophysiology; Prefrontal cortex; Temporal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMENOPAUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54349096083     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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