Interactive effects of estrogen and serotonin on brain activation during working memory and affective processing in menopausal women

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 372-382

  Epperson, C Neill ^a,b   Amin, Zenab ^b   Ruparel, Kosha ^a   Gur, Ruben ^a   Loughead, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Estrogen; FMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Menopause; Serotonin; Tryptophan depletion; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIELLE DOT;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTION; EMOTION IDENTIFICATION TASK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; N BACK TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AFFECT; AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84856564152     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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