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SUBMITTER: Oei NY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2780685 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oei Nicole Y L NY Elzinga Bernet M BM Wolf Oliver T OT de Ruiter Michiel B MB Damoiseaux Jessica S JS Kuijer Joost P A JP Veltman Dick J DJ Scheltens Philip P Rombouts Serge A R B SA
Brain imaging and behavior 20070601 1-2
Glucocorticoids (GCs, cortisol in human) are associated with impairments in declarative memory retrieval. Brain regions hypothesized to mediate these effects are the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC). Our aim was to use fMRI in localizing the effects of GCs during declarative memory retrieval. Therefore, we tested memory retrieval in 21 young healthy males in a randomized placebo-controlled crossover design. Participants encoded word lists containing neutral and emotional words 1 h prior t ...[more]