Accumulating evidence has highlighted a number of important, global issues regarding the
influence of estrogen on emotion and cognitive functions, including learning and memory …

Although the effects of estrogen on sexual behavior in mammals are well known, its role on
other types of behavior, including cognition, have only recently been recognized. This …

Both the neurotransmitter serotonin and the ovarian steroid estrogen have been implicated
in the modulation of mood and cognition. Although significant functional interactions …

Use of estrogen therapy in the perimenopausal and postmenopausal periods has been
shown in several clinical trials to help women maintain a premenopausal level of cognitive …

Besides their key role in reproduction, estrogens have effects in several organs in the body,
as confirmed by the identification of estrogen receptors (ER) in multiple tissues …

Starting from fetal life, estrogens are crucial in determining central gender dimorphism, and
an estrogen-induced synaptic plasticity is well evident during puberty and seasonal changes …

This article is part of a Special Issue" Estradiol and cognition". This review discusses the
unique contribution of nonhuman primate research to our understanding of the …

Cover and Figure 1. New areas in which estrogen receptors have been confirmed in
primates are illustrated on a sagittal drawing of the human brain (Cover) and on axial human …

Recent advances in our knowledge of estrogen action in the brain suggest that this steroid is
not solely an endocrine factor but plays important but hitherto largely unrecognized …

BACKGROUND: Estrogens modulate the morphology and function of the hippocampus.
Recent studies have focused on the effects of different types of estrogens on neuroplasticity …