Inflexibly Focused Under Stress: Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Shielding of Action Goals At the Expense of Reduced Cognitive Flexibility With Increasing Time Lag To the Stressor

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Plessow ◽  
Rico Fischer ◽  
Clemens Kirschbaum ◽  
Thomas Goschke
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Action Goals

Inflexibly Focused under Stress: Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Shielding of Action Goals at the Expense of Reduced Cognitive Flexibility with Increasing Time Lag to the Stressor

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 3218-3227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Plessow ◽  
Rico Fischer ◽  
Clemens Kirschbaum ◽  
Thomas Goschke
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Amylase Activity ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Free Cortisol ◽  
Cortisol Levels ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress

Dynamically adjusting the right amount of goal shielding to varying situational demands is associated with the flexibility of cognitive control, typically linked with pFC functioning. Although stress hormones are found to also bind to prefrontal receptors, the link between stress and cognitive control remains elusive. Based on that, we aimed at investigating effects of acute psychosocial stress on dynamic control adjustments. Forty-eight healthy volunteers were exposed to either a well-established stress induction protocol (the Trier Social Stress Test, TSST) or a standardized control situation before a selective attention (Simon) task involving response conflicts. The individual physiological stress response was monitored by analyzing levels of free cortisol and α-amylase activity in saliva samples showing that the TSST reliably induced an increase of endogenous stress hormone levels. Acute stress did not inevitably impair cognitive functioning, however, as stressed participants showed tonically increased goal shielding (to reduce interference) at the expense of decreased cognitive flexibility. Importantly, as a novel finding in humans, stress effects on cognitive functions were not present immediately after the stress experience but developed gradually over time and, therefore, paralleled the time course of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) stress response. In addition, the total increase of individual cortisol levels reflecting HPA activity, but not the total changes in α-amylase activity associated with sympathetic activity, was reversely related to the amount of cognitive flexibility in the final block of testing. Our study provides evidence for a stress-induced time-dependent decrease of cognitive flexibility that might be related to changes in cortisol levels.

Acute psychosocial stress modulates magnetoencephalographic correlates of visual attention

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Elling ◽  
H. Schupp ◽  
J. Bayer ◽  
A. K. Brockelmann ◽  
C. Steinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress

48-LB: The Effect of Acute Psychosocial Stress in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 48-LB
Author(s):  
MINSUN PARK ◽  
YOUNGKWAN SONG ◽  
MINSEUNG CHU ◽  
MERT SEVIL ◽  
NICOLE HOBBS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress

Sex steroid levels temporarily increase in response to acute psychosocial stress in healthy men and women

2012 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Karin Lennartsson ◽  
Mark M. Kushnir ◽  
Jonas Bergquist ◽  
Håkan Billig ◽  
Ingibjörg H. Jonsdottir
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Sex Steroid ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Healthy Men ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress

Secretory IgA reactivity to acute psychosocial stress in children and adolescents: the influence of childhood maltreatment and psychopthology

2021 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 105493
Author(s):  
Laia Marques-Feixa ◽  
Agueda Castro-Quintas ◽  
Helena Palma-Gudiel ◽  
José Luís Monteserín ◽  
Soledad Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Secretory Iga ◽  
Acute Psychosocial Stress
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