Vasopressin analog (DDAVP) improves memory in human males.
One specific analog of arginine vasopressin, 1-desamine-8-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP), has been shown to improve learning and memory in humans. Healthy young male adult subjects treated with DDAVP demonstrated better memory for implicational sentences than did control subjects. The same treatment had no influence on women given the same memory task. These results suggest that DDAVP may have a sexually dimorphic effect on learning and memory.
D000328:Adult; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000187:drug effects*; D010919:Placebos; D012737:Sex Factors
D010919:Placebos; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin; D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin