Effects of single cortisol administrations on human affect reviewed: Coping with stress through adaptive regulation of automatic cognitive processing

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 439-448

  Putman, Peter ^a   Roelofs, Karin ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Coping; Emotion regulation; Exogenous cortisol; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADAPTATION; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ANIMALS; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MEMORY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952042984     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.12.001     Document Type: Review

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