Temporal variation of acute stress responses in sympathetic nervous and immune systems.

abstract：:The present study examined the influence of trait anxiety on the early stages of emotional face processing. In order to test if such early effect of anxiety could appear in response to positive as well as to negative stimuli, we recorded event-related potentials in response to both happy and fearful faces - contrasted...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Morel S,George N,Foucher A,Chammat M,Dubal S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated emotional responding in dysphoric individuals. Dysphoric (N = 25) and nondysphoric (N = 29) individuals completed an emotional imagery task, including pleasant, neutral and unpleasant emotional-eliciting scripts. Self-reported valence and arousal, and measures of cardiac autonomic activi...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Messerotti Benvenuti S,Mennella R,Buodo G,Palomba D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report deals with a study--carried out among 46 12-17-year-old-boys--of the relationship between: (1) the excretion of waste products of catecholamines (methyladrenaline and methylnoradrenaline) and creatinine, (2) aggressive behaviour in a laboratory setting, and (3) data obtained via a conscience-function quest...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ekkers CL

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has described a component of human electrical brain activity (the ERN or NE) that is associated with error-processing. In the present experiment, we used magneto-encephalographic recordings to provide converging evidence both for the existence of this component and for its putative source in the brain....

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Miltner WH,Lemke U,Weiss T,Holroyd C,Scheffers MK,Coles MG

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect that motivationally relevant stimuli have on processes of attentional engagement and disengagement was investigated during two modified peripheral cueing paradigms. Sexual, mutilation, threatening, and neutral stimuli served as peripheral cues in both experiments. Responses were made to target location in E...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Briggs KE,Martin FH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated repeatedly that the evaluation of a face is not only influenced by the social message that is signaled by the face's emotional expression, but also by other social factors such as ethnicity or group membership. Studies in the field of startle research, however, have hitherto investigated only ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Paulus A,Renn K,Wentura D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has indicated that information acquired before sleep gets consolidated during sleep. This process of consolidation might be reflected after sleep in changed extent and topography of cortical activation during retrieval of information. Here, we designed an experiment to measure those changes by means ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Verleger R,Ludwig J,Kolev V,Yordanova J,Wagner U

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity for abstraction is vital for adaptive behavior. Based on behavioral data and event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study investigates the brain's ability to encode abstract auditory rules with a dynamic approach in which rules constantly emerge and vanish. In successive conditions, abstract rules a...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Bendixen A,Schröger E

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biocybernetic system has been developed as a method to evaluate automated flight deck concepts for compatibility with human capabilities. A biocybernetic loop is formed by adjusting the mode of operation of a task set (e.g., manual/automated mix) based on electroencephalographic (EEG) signals reflecting an operator'...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Pope AT,Bogart EH,Bartolome DS

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen subjects learned to adjust their breath pattern to two target breaths displayed on a video screen, by using visual feedback, during two sessions 24 h apart. These two targets were respectively the smallest and the largest breaths of a ten-breath sample previously recorded from each subject's resting spontaneo...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Blanc-Gras N,Estève F,Benchetrit G,Gallego J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated cortisol is recognized as a transient response to stress, and is also found among patients with major depressive disorder. Abnormally high levels of thyroxin are associated with nervousness and irritability, while very low levels are associated with lethargy. Therefore it is reasonable to ask if variations in...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mazur A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may exhibit chronic autonomic nervous system (ANS) hyperarousal (e.g., lower respiratory sinus arrhythmia and higher heart rate) compared to their typically developing peers, reflecting a chronic biological threat response. The sustained nature of this cardiac threat sug...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Patriquin MA,Hartwig EM,Friedman BH,Porges SW,Scarpa A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Perruchet effect, there is a concurrent dissociation between participants' conditioned responses (CRs) and their expectancy of the unconditioned stimulus (US) across runs of repeated trials. The effect has been taken as evidence for multiple learning processes, but this conclusion follows only if the CR trend i...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Weidemann G,Lovibond PF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent literature shows great heterogeneity in the reported efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a stand-alone psychiatric treatment. Aiming to increase its efficacy, tDCS has been combined with psychological interventions. Our state-of-the-art overview of such combined treatment trials indica...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Dedoncker J,Baeken C,De Raedt R,Vanderhasselt MA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the late posterior negativity (LPN) is a component linked to stimulus retrieval or rather to complex, higher-order stimulus evaluation processes or response preparation processes. Participants performed three separate tasks across separate sessions: an encoding task, a memory recognition task, ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Sommer K,Vita S,De Pascalis V

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of responding hand and stimulus probability were investigated in young and old subjects in an RT task in which both rare and frequent stimuli required a response. It was found that the effect of stimulus probability was less pronounced in old subjects than in young, and that the latency of P3 was longer in...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Looren de Jong H,Kok A,Van Rooy JC

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by avoidance, emotional numbing, increased arousal and hypervigilance for threat following a trauma. Thirty-three veterans (19 with PTSD, 14 without PTSD) who had experienced combat trauma while on deployment in Iraq and/or Afghanistan completed an emotional faces...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： MacNamara A,Post D,Kennedy AE,Rabinak CA,Phan KL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tonic and phasic differences in peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) indicators strongly predict differences in attention and emotion regulation in developmental populations. However, virtually all previous research has been based on individual ANS measures, which poses a variety of conceptual and methodlogical c...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wass SV,de Barbaro K,Clackson K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to analyze the covert attentional time course in early body processing areas in women with high body concerns. Therefore, we assessed the effect of pictures of one's own body and other bodies as distractions from a demanding dot detection task in 24 women with low and 20 women with high body concerns....

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Voges MM,Giabbiconi CM,Gruber T,Andersen SK,Hartmann AS,Vocks S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of perceived control in pain perception, fibromyalgia patients and healthy controls participated in a reaction time experiment under different conditions of pain controllability. No significant differences between groups were found in pain intensity and unpleasantness ratings. However, during the e...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： González-Roldán AM,Bomba IC,Diesch E,Montoya P,Flor H,Kamping S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boxers' attention and orienting mechanisms were investigated using event-related brain potential recordings, before and after a fight. This study did not reveal any abnormalities of attention or detection processes. However, a slight deficit in the orienting reaction towards stimuli delivered in the right ear, related...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Breton F,Pincemaille Y,Tarriere C,Renault B

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that the latter part of usual human sleep is phenotypically adaptable (without 'sleep debt') to habitual shortening or lengthening, according to environmental influences of light, safety, food availability and socio-economic factors, but without increasing daytime sleepiness. Pluripotent brain mechanisms ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Horne J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contingent Negative Variation (CNV) was compared in four paradigms inducing distinct processes. All paradigms comprised empty intervals of 4 sec bounded by two 100 msec stimuli (S1 and S2) or by S1 and the response (a button press). In paradigm ID (Intensity Discrimination), the S1-S2 interval was followed, after ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Macar F,Besson M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in hormone levels during aging impact on cognition and mood. Serum concentration levels of testosterone (TT), estradiol (E2), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and prolactin (PRL) were assessed in 120 community-dwellers (51+ years of age, m...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Castanho TC,Moreira PS,Portugal-Nunes C,Novais A,Costa PS,Palha JA,Sousa N,Santos NC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating and prevalent disorder associated with lower quality of life and substantial economic burden. Recently, there has been strong interest in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as a biological predictor of later depression. Theoretical work suggests that higher resting RSA...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Yaptangco M,Crowell SE,Baucom BR,Bride DL,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined lateralized event-related potentials (L-ERPs) associated with movement preparation and execution. In a response precuing task that involved hand and foot movements a precue conveyed either information about side and effector, side alone, or no information. Advance movement preparation was in...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Leuthold H,Jentzsch I

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral activation system (BAS) and the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) have been proposed to be related to anterior asymmetry in the BIS/BAS model of anterior asymmetry. As an alternative, it may be suggested that behavioral activation comprises approach and withdrawal motivation and that the BAS is related...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Hewig J,Hagemann D,Seifert J,Naumann E,Bartussek D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background noise has become part of our everyday life in modern societies. Its presence affects both the ability to concentrate and communicate. Some individuals, like children, the elderly, and non-native speakers have pronounced problems in noisy environments. Here we review evidence suggesting that background noise...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kujala T,Brattico E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral analysis of the electroencephalogram was utilized to determine attention demands during learning of a perceptual motor task. Fifteen subjects participated in the task which consisted of 15 trials of the mirror star learning task. EEG was monitored bilaterally from the occipital and parietal lobes during each ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Gliner JA,Mihevic PM,Horvath SM

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of predictability of threat on potentiation of the startle reflex were investigated by presenting participants with predictable and unpredictable electric shocks. Shocks were presented either paired with a visual cue (paired condition) or unrelated to the presentation of the visual cues (unpaired condition). I...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Mol N,Baas JM,Grillon C,van Ooijen L,Kenemans JL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00