Cortisol has enhancing, rather than impairing effects on memory retrieval in PTSD

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1048-1056

  Wingenfeld, Katja ^a,b   Driessen, Martin ^c   Terfehr, Kirsten ^b   Schlosser, Nicole ^c   Fernando, Silvia Carvalho ^c   Otte, Christian ^a   Beblo, Thomas ^c   Spitzer, Carsten ^b   Löwe, Bernd ^b   Wolf, Oliver Tobias ^d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c EVANGELISCHES KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Cortisol; Declarative verbal memory; HPA axis; PTSD

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; JENAPHARM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DSM-II; DSM-IV; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861186601     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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