Objective cognitive performance is related to subjective memory complaints in midlife women with moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms

Menopause

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1236-1242

  Drogos, Lauren L ^a   Rubin, Leah H ^a   Geller, Stacie E ^b   Banuvar, Suzanne ^b   Shulman, Lee P ^c   Maki, Pauline M ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hormones; Hot flashes; Memory; Menopause; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BENTON VISUAL RETENTION TEST; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GREENE CLIMACTERIC SCALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY FUNCTIONING QUESTIONNAIRE; MODIFIED CARD ROTATION TEST; MODIFIED PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; MOOD; OBJECTIVE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84889101750     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0b013e318291f5a6     Document Type: Article

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