Estrogens and cognition: Friends or foes?. An evaluation of the opposing effects of estrogens on learning and memory.

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 105-115

  Korol, Donna L ^a   Pisani, Samantha L ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Multiple memory systems; Striatum

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; AMPA RECEPTOR; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRADIOL;

BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ESTRUS CYCLE; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 84941741051     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.017     Document Type: Review

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