Cortisol mediates the effects of stress on the contextual dependency of memories

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-110

  Van Ast, Vanessa A ^a,b,c   Cornelisse, Sandra ^d   Meeter, Martijn ^e   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Context; Cortisol; Emotion; Encoding; Memory; Post traumatic stress disorder; Recognition; Stress; Trier social stress test

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA-AMYLASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CUES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893385567     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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