Influences of hormone replacement therapy on olfactory and cognitive function in postmenopausal women

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2053-2059

  Doty, Richard L ^a   Tourbier, Isabelle ^a   Ng, Victoria ^a   Neff, Jessica ^a   Armstrong, Deborah ^a   Battistini, Michelle ^b   Sammel, Mary D ^b   Gettes, David ^b   Evans, Dwight L ^b   Mirza, Natasha ^a   Moberg, Paul J ^a,b   Connolly, Tim ^a   Sondheimer, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Endocrinology; Estrogen; Hormone replacement therapy; Menopause; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ALLELE; APOE EPSILON 4 GENE; APOE GENE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD; COGNITION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COGNITION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTMENOPAUSE; SMELL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TESTOSTERONE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84929297454     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.02.028     Document Type: Article

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