How Progesterone Impairs Memory for Biologically Salient Stimuli in Healthy Young Women

Table 1.

Serum concentrations of progesterone and allopregnanolone after the oral administration of 400 mg of micronized progesterone (nmol/L)

Time (min) Progesterone Allopregnanolone
0 (baseline) 1.9 ± 0.3 0.6 ± 0.1
80 (before fMRI session) 16.2 ± 7.3 23.3 ± 8.4
190 (after fMRI session) 174.2 ± 68.4 185.8 ± 26.6
  • Data are mean ± SEM.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 27 no. 42 11416-11423
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