On the effects of testosterone on brain behavioral functions

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Celec, Peter ^a,b,c   Ostatníková, Daniela ^a   Hodosy, Július ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Androgen; Behavioral neuroendocrinology; Cognition; Emotions; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; AROMATASE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; VALIDITY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84949116108     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00012     Document Type: Review

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