Cognitive performance in healthy women during induced hypogonadism and ovarian steroid addback

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-58

  Schmidt, Peter J ^a   Keenan, P A ^b   Schenkel, Linda A ^a   Berlin, Kate ^a   Gibson, Carolyn ^a   Rubinow, David R ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estradiol; Hypogonadism; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LEUPRORELIN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FINGER SPAN TEST; FINGER TAPPING TEST; GROOVED PEGBOARD TEST; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MONEY ROAD MAP TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PURDUE PEG BOARD TEST; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STROOP COLOR NAMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEUPROLIDE; MEMORY; OVARY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROGESTERONE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84872611354     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-012-0316-9     Document Type: Article

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