Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8687092 | NeuroImage | 2018 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
In the study at hand, we used the rather robust optical imaging method of functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess brain activation during the TSST and two non-stressful control conditions. Additionally, we measured other stress parameters including the cortisol response and subjective stress ratings. As expected we found significant increases in subjective and physiological stress measures during the TSST in comparison to the baseline and control conditions. We found higher activation in parts of the cognitive control network (CCN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) - comprising the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus and superior parietal cortex - during the performance of the TSST in comparison to the control conditions. Further, calculation errors during the TSST as well as subjective and physiological stress parameters correlated significantly with the activation in the CCN. Our study confirms the validity of previous neuroimaging data obtained from adapted stress procedures by providing cortical activation data during a classical stress induction paradigm (i.e., the TSST) for the first time.
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Authors
David Rosenbaum, Paula Hilsendegen, Mara Thomas, Florian B. Haeussinger, Florian G. Metzger, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Vanessa Nieratschker, Ann-Christine Ehlis,