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

When experiencing stress, it is essential to maintain cognitive control to successfully modulate thoughts and actions. For example, when arriving at a noisy crowded train station and the train is due to depart shortly, it is crucial to ascertain the correct platform of departure from the departure boards, despite experiencing stress. Stress is a psychophysiological process elicited by physical or psychosocial strains, leading to subjective evaluation of situations as stressful (Cohen et al., 2016; Rajesh et al., 2014) and triggering reactions via the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary(SAM)-system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal(HPA)-axis (Calvo& Guti érrez-García, 2016).
Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research