Abstract

High serum concentrations of cortisol may be responsible for stress induced memory loss, a team of researchers from Zurich has found. They compared the effects of oral cortisol and placebo in a randomised trial and found that the cortisol group did worse in tests of recall than controls. The research was prompted by animal research suggesting that learning was enhanced in animals given glucocorticoids. …

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