Corticosteroids operate as a switch between memory systems

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1362-1372

  Schwabe, Lars ^a,b   Schächinger, Hartmut ^a   De Kloet, E Ron ^b   Oitzl, Melly S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; OXPRENOATE POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MICE; MINERALOCORTICOIDS; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SPIRONOLACTONE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953356562     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21278     Document Type: Article

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