Cortisol reduces recall of explicit contextual pain memory in healthy young men

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1270-1273

  Schwegler, Kyrill ^a   Ettlin, Dominik ^b   Buser, Iris ^b   Klaghofer, Richard ^c   Goetzmann, Lutz ^c   Buddeberg, Claus ^c   Alon, Eli ^c   Brügger, Mike ^b   de Quervain, Dominique J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoids; Memory; Pain

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HEAT STRESS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

EID: 77955586980     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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