Stress shifts brain activation towards ventral 'affective' areas during emotional distraction

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 403-412

  Oei, Nicole Y L ^a   Veer, Ilya M ^a,b   Wolf, Oliver T ^c   Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   Rombouts, Serge A R B ^a,b   Elzinga, Bernet M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Emotional distraction; Imaging; Stress; Working memory

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859831248     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr024     Document Type: Article

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