Acute stress and working memory in older people

Stress

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 178-187

  Pulopulos, Matias M ^a   Hidalgo, Vanesa ^a   Almela, Mercedes ^a   Puig Perez, Sara ^a   Villada, Carolina ^a   Salvador, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; cortisol; hypothalamuspituitary adrenal axis; older people; stress; working memory

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE; ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIGIT SPAN BACKWARD; DIGIT SPAN FORWARD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER NUMBER SEQUENCING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS ASSESMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; WORKING MEMORY; CHEMISTRY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84937020701     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2015.1004538     Document Type: Article

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