Estrogen and memory system bias in females across the lifespan

Translational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-50

  Hussain, Dema ^a   Shams, Waqqas M ^a   Brake, Wayne G ^a  

^a Department of Psychology Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dopamine; Hippocampus; Learning; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum; Women

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84900372454     PISSN: 20813856     EISSN: 20816936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13380-014-0209-7     Document Type: Review

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