Acute stress alters auditory selective attention in humans independent of HPA: A study of evoked potentials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Elling, Ludger ^a   Steinberg, Christian ^a   Bröckelmann, Ann Kathrin ^a   Dobel, Christan ^a   Bölte, Jens ^b   Junghofer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA LEVEL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ATTENTION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; HEART RATE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; TIME;

RODENTIA;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953673253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018009     Document Type: Article

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