Cold Pressor Stress Impairs Performance on Working Memory Tasks Requiring Executive Functions in Healthy Young Men

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1066-1075

  Schoofs, Daniela ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^a   Smeets, Tom ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cold pressor stress; digit span task; HPA; O Span task; working memory

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFORMATION STORAGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; COLD TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SALIVA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350088418     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016980     Document Type: Article

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