Effects of testosterone on cognition in young adult male rhesus monkeys

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 524-531

  Lacreuse, Agnès ^a   Chiavetta, Margaret R ^a   Shirai, Ashley Ann C ^a   Meyer, Jerrold S ^a   Grow, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; GnRH; Learning; Lupron; Macaque; Memory

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LEUPROLIDE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 71549136444     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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