Influence of acute tryptophan depletion on verbal declarative episodic memory in young adult females

Amino Acids

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1207-1219

  Helmbold, K ^a,b   Bubenzer, S ^a,b   Dahmen, B ^a,b   Eisert, A ^a   Gaber, T J ^a,b   Habel, U ^a,b   Konrad, K ^a,b   Herpertz Dahlmann, B ^a,b   Zepf, F D ^a,b,c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Brain Section   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute tryptophan depletion; Gender; Long term memory; Menstrual cycle; Serotonin; Sex hormones; Short term memory; Verbal declarative episodic memory

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEROTONIN; SEX HORMONE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886281395     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-013-1582-1     Document Type: Article

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