Blocking mineralocorticoid receptors impairs, blocking glucocorticoid receptors enhances memory retrieval in humans

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 884-894

  Rimmele, Ulrike ^a   Besedovsky, Luciana ^b,c   Lange, Tanja ^b,c   Born, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

cortisol; glucocorticoid receptor; memory; mifepristone; mineralocorticoid receptor; spironolactone

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTIONALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PLASMA HALF LIFE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SLEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SLEEP; SPIRONOLACTONE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875225483     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.254     Document Type: Article

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