Postmenopausal hormone use impact on emotion processing circuitry

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 147-153

  Shafir, Tal ^a,b   Love, Tiffany ^a   Berent Spillson, Alison ^a,b,c   Persad, Carol C ^b   Wang, Heng ^a   Reame, Nancy K ^d   Frey, Kirk A ^a,c   Zubieta, Jon Kar ^a,b,c   Smith, Yolanda R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Estrogen; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hormone therapy; Postmenopause; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; POSTMENOPAUSE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 80053375045     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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