Short-term testosterone manipulations do not affect cognition or motor function but differentially modulate emotions in young and older male rhesus monkeys

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 731-742

  Kelly, Brian ^a,b,c   Maguire Herring, Vanessa ^b   Rose, Christian M ^a   Gore, Heather E ^a   Ferrigno, Stephen ^a   Novak, Melinda A ^a,b   Lacreuse, Agnès ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Androgens; Leuprolide; Macaque; Memory; Primate

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; GONADORELIN;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PLAY; REFERENCE MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMOTIONS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84908338432     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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