Effects of testosterone on attention and memory for emotional stimuli in male rhesus monkeys

• Published in: Psychoneuroendocrinology Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 396 - 409
• Main Authors: King, Hanna M., Kurdziel, Laura B., Meyer, Jerrold S., Lacreuse, Agnès
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Androgens; Animals; Arousal; Attention - drug effects; Attention - physiology; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Emotion; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Facial Expression; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone - agonists; Hormones and behavior; Leuprolide - pharmacology; Macaca; Macaca mulatta; Macaque; Male; Memory, Short-Term - drug effects; Memory, Short-Term - physiology; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance - drug effects; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Reaction Time - drug effects; Recognition (Psychology) - drug effects; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Testosterone - analogs & derivatives; Testosterone - blood; Testosterone - pharmacology; Testosterone - physiology; Macaque; Androgens; Cognition; Emotion; Arousal; Affect affectivity; Androgen; Memory; Attention; Male; Emotion emotionality; Macaca mulatta; Testosterone; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Primates; Simioidea; Testicular hormone; Sex steroid hormone

Increasing evidence in humans and other animals suggests that testosterone (T) plays an important role in modulating emotion. We previously reported that T treatment in rhesus monkeys undergoing chemically induced hypogonadism results in increased watching time of videos depicting fights between unf...