Cortisol rapidly affects amplitudes of heartbeat-evoked brain potentials-Implications for the contribution of stress to an altered perception of physical sensations?

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2686-2693

  Schulz, André ^a,b   Strelzyk, Florian ^b   Ferreira de Sá, Diana S ^b   Naumann, Ewald ^b   Vögele, Claus ^a   Schächinger, Hartmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Heartbeat detection; Heartbeat evoked potentials; HPA axis; Interoception; Non genomic mechanism; Stress; Symptom perception; Visceral perception

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HEARTBEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL SENSATION; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SENSATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CORTISOL; HEARTBEAT DETECTION; HEARTBEAT-EVOKED POTENTIALS; HPA AXIS; INTEROCEPTION; NON-GENOMIC MECHANISM; STRESS; SYMPTOM PERCEPTION; VISCERAL PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PERCEPTION; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886093825     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.06.027     Document Type: Article

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