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. 2014 Apr 7:8:65.
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00065. eCollection 2014.

Effects of estrogen on higher-order cognitive functions in unstressed human females may depend on individual variation in dopamine baseline levels

Lorenza S Colzato  1 , Bernhard Hommel  1
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Effects of estrogen on higher-order cognitive functions in unstressed human females may depend on individual variation in dopamine baseline levels

Lorenza S Colzato et al. Front Neurosci. .
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Keywords: cognition; dopamine; estrogen; individual differences; “inverted-U”-shaped function.

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