Emotional memory can be persistently weakened by suppressing cortisol during retrieval

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-107

  Rimmele, Ulrike ^a   Besedovsky, Luciana ^b   Lange, Tanja ^b,c   Born, Jan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Memory; Metyrapone; Recall; Retrieval; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTISOL SUPPRESSION; EMOTIONAL MEMORY; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; MOOD; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SOMNOLENCE; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; METYRAPONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924652306     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.010     Document Type: Article

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