Chapter 3.7 Glucocorticoids: effects on human cognition

Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue PART 1, 2005, Pages 387-402

  Lupien, Sonia J ^a,b   Maheu, Françoise S ^a,c   Weekes, Nicole ^d  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0921-0709(05)80022-7     Document Type: Chapter

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