Acute and past subjective stress influence working memory and related neural substrates

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 96, Issue , 2018, Pages 25-34

  Luettgau, Lennart ^a,b   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^b,c   Sjoerds, Zsuzsika ^b,d,e  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Cortisol; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC); n Back task; Past subjective stress; Trier social stress test (TSST); Working memory (WM)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85047852799     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.036     Document Type: Article

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