Neurocognitive function and state cognitive stress appraisal predict cortisol reactivity to an acute psychosocial stressor in adolescents

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1318-1327

  Slattery, Marcia J ^a   Grieve, Adam J ^a   Ames, Michelle E ^a   Armstrong, Jeffrey M ^a   Essex, Marilyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anxiety; Cortisol; Depression; Memory; Neurocognitive function; Stress appraisal; TSST

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878650581     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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