Phasic deactivation of the medial temporal lobe enables working memory processing under stress

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1161-1167

  Cousijn, Helena ^a,b   Rijpkema, Mark ^a   Qin, Shaozheng ^a,c   van Wingen, Guido A ^a,d   Fernández, Guillén ^a,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; ASL; Hippocampus; Stress; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIN LABELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055184336     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.027     Document Type: Article

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