Effects of acute psychosocial stress on working memory related brain activity in men

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1418-1429

  Weerda, Riklef ^a   Muehlhan, Markus ^a,b   Wolf, Oliver T ^c   Thiel, Christiane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; Posterior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Trier social stress test

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956292771     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20945     Document Type: Article

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