Dynamically changing effects of corticosteroids on human hippocampal and prefrontal processing

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2885-2897

  Henckens, Marloes J A G ^a,b   Pu, Zhenwei ^a,c   Hermans, Erno J ^a,d,e   Van Wingen, Guido A ^a,d,f   Joëls, Marian ^b,c   Fernández, Guillén ^a,c,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; FMRI; Hippocampus; Memory; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SALIVA;

EID: 84868640058     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21409     Document Type: Article

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