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Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in humans

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Figure 1: Effects of administering a single oral dose of cortisone (25 mg) on distinct memory phases.

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We thank K. Henke and K. Kräuchi for comments on the manuscript and C. Kirschbaum for cortisol analysis. Research was supported by the Roche Research Foundation (D.Q.), the Swiss National Science Foundation (3232-058420.99; D.Q.) and a Ralph W. and Leona Gerard Family Trust Fellowship (B.R.).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry Research, University of Zürich, Lenggstr. 31, Zürich, 8029, Switzerland

    Dominique J.-F. de Quervain, Roger M. Nitsch & Christoph Hock

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Str. 27, Basel, 4025, Switzerland

    Dominique J.-F. de Quervain & Christoph Hock

  3. Center for the Neurobiology of Learning Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, 92697-3800, California, USA

    Benno Roozendaal & James L. McGaugh

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de Quervain, DF., Roozendaal, B., Nitsch, R. et al. Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in humans. Nat Neurosci 3, 313–314 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/73873

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