The stressed prefrontal cortex and goal-directed behaviour: Acute psychosocial stress impairs the flexible implementation of task goals

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 397-408

  Plessow, Franziska ^a   Kiesel, Andrea ^b   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute psychosocial stress; Cognitive control; Cortisol; Executive functions; Task switching; Trier Social Stress Test

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856246572     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2943-1     Document Type: Article

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