Cognition, mood, and physiological concentrations of sex hormones in the early and late postmenopause

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 20290-20295

  Henderson, Victor W ^a   St John, Jan A ^b   Hodis, Howard N ^b,c   McCleary, Carol A ^b   Stanczyk, Frank Z ^b   Karim, Roksana ^b   Shoupe, Donna ^b   Kono, Naoko ^b   Dustin, Laurie ^b   Allayee, Hooman ^b   Mack, Wendy J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MOOD; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 84890287566     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312353110     Document Type: Article

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