The impact of acute psychosocial stress on magnetoencephalographic correlates of emotional attention and exogenous visual attention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Elling, Ludger ^a   Schupp, Harald ^b   Bayer, Janine ^c   Bröckelmann, Ann Kathrin ^a   Steinberg, Christian ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a   Junghofer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; CATECHOLAMINE;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLOOD; EYE FIXATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CATECHOLAMINES; EMOTIONS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862201466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035767     Document Type: Article

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