Time-dependent corticosteroid modulation of prefrontal working memory processing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5801-5806

  Henckens, Marloes J A G ^a,b   Van Wingen, Guido A ^a,b,c   Joëls, Marian ^b   Fernández, Guillén ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 79955024800     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019128108     Document Type: Article

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