Estradiol treatment altered anticholinergic-related brain activation during working memory in postmenopausal women

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1394-1403

  Dumas, Julie A ^a   Kutz, Amanda M ^a   Naylor, Magdalena R ^a   Johnson, Julia V ^b   Newhouse, Paul A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic system; Estradiol; FMRI; Postmenopausal women; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; MECAMYLAMINE; PLACEBO; SCOPOLAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PROVOCATION TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; BRAIN; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 84862798468     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.043     Document Type: Article

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