Adrenal stress hormones and enhanced memory for emotionally arousing experiences

Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 265-283

  McIntyre, Christa K ^a   Roozendaal, Benno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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