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Serum levels of estradiol and testosterone and performance in different cognitive domains in healthy elderly men and women

Date

Authors

Hogervorst, E

de Jager, Celeste A

Budge, Marc

Smith, Dawn

Publisher

Pergamon Press

Abstract

Sex hormones could protect against age-related cognitive decline in elderly men and women. We investigated the relationships between serum total testosterone (TT), total estradiol (TE2) levels and cognitive function in 145 non-demented elderly volunteers

Keywords

Keywords: estradiol; sex hormone; sex hormone binding globulin; testosterone; aged; alcohol consumption; article; body mass; cognition; controlled study; depression; education; estradiol blood level; female; human; human experiment; information processing; male; no Cognitive function; Elderly; Estrogens; Hormones; Memory; Testosterone

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/77349

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/S0306-4530(03)00053-2