Reproductive events modify the effects of estrogen replacement therapy on cognition in healthy postmenopausal women

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 284-296

  Dunkin, Jennifer ^a   Rasgon, Natalie ^b   Wagner Steh, Kristi ^a   David, Steven ^c   Altshuler, Lori ^a   Rapkin, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cognition; Estrogen; Neuroendocrinology; Parity; Postmenopausal women

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 7044249573     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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