Stress sensitizes the brain: Increased processing of unpleasant pictures after exposure to acute stress

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1511-1518

  Weymar, Mathias ^a,b   Schwabe, Lars ^c   Löw, Andreas ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SOCIALLY EVALUATED COLD PRESSOR TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861536620     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00174     Document Type: Article

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