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Spatial working memory is preserved in rats treated with anabolic-androgenic steroids
S T Smith1, R W Stackman, A S Clark
1Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Brain Research
|October 21, 1996
Abstract:
The effects of anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) compounds on spatial working memory were evaluated in male rats. Thirty days of administration of a high dose of three individual AAS compounds (17 alpha-methyltestosterone, methandrostenolone, or testosterone cypionate) had no effects on spatial memory or motivation as tested on a delayed non-match-to-sample radial arm maze task. Administration of these AAS compounds at doses within the human abuse range does not impair spatial working memory in rats.