Short-term testosterone manipulations modulate visual recognition memory and some aspects of emotional reactivity in male rhesus monkeys

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-237

  Lacreuse, Agnès ^a   Gore, Heather E ^a   Chang, Jeemin ^a   Kaplan, Emily R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Arousal; Cognition; Emotion; Macaque; Memory

Indexed keywords

DEGARELIX; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED NON MATCHING TO SAMPLE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; OBJECT DELAYED RECOGNITION SPAN TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; EMOTIONS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TESTOSTERONE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857428208     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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