The impact of age-related ovarian hormone loss on cognitive and neural function

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 165-184

  Boulware, Marissa I ^a   Kent, Brianne A ^b   Frick, Karyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Memory; Menopause; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; ESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84878873315     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2011_122     Document Type: Article

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