Family environment is associated with HPA-axis activity in adolescents. The TRAILS study.

abstract：:Our understanding of developmental changes in attentional selection in the growing child has been advanced substantially by the results of (a relatively small number of) studies undertaken from a psychophysiological perspective. The basic outcome of these studies is that, in attentional filtering as well as selective ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Ridderinkhof KR,van der Stelt O

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationship between the personality trait of harm avoidance (HA) and the dopamine D(2/3) receptor availability in striatal subdivisions using high resolution positron emission tomography (PET) with [(11)C]raclopride. Twenty-one healthy subjects completed 3T magnetic resonance imaging and high resoluti...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kim JH,Son YD,Kim HK,Lee SY,Cho SE,Kim YB,Cho ZH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study synchronization of respiration, three different videofragments were presented to 21 normal subjects. Each fragment showed a 'therapeutic interview' specially performed for this purpose, with a 'patient' breathing in a particular way. The respiration of model 1 was deep, slow and clearly audible, the ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Garssen B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four undergraduate male volunteers participated in an experimental designed to assess the effect of voluntary control of heart rate deceleration on skin conductance level. One group of subjects received heart rate feedback training and a second group performed a tracking task. Because heart-rate feedback was pr...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Gatchel RJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests that alterations in autonomic function contribute to the pathophysiology of panic disorder (PD). This retrospective study employed 24-h heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of Holter records to compare autonomic function in PD patients (n = 38) with healthy, age- and gender-matched controls....

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： McCraty R,Atkinson M,Tomasino D,Stuppy WP

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated differences in nervous system activity and in psychological and behavioural variables between the "baseline" follicular and the premenstrual phases. Twenty women with severe premenstrual syndrome were compared with 20 non-sufferers (10 from each group in each cycle phase). The Patient groups ha...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Asso D,Magos A

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pupillary size, pupillary light reflex and pupillary motility were measured every 15 min, for 10 continuous hours, in eight young adults. Time series constructed from the range of pupillary motility revealed 75 to 125 min rhythms; these were significantly out of phase with rhythms of similar periodicity in pupillary d...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Lavie P

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article examines developmental differences across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in the triphasic anticipatory heart rate response and the impact of age on the relationship between anticipatory deceleration (D2) and reaction time (RT). Heart rate and RT were recorded from participants ages 5-25 duri...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Byrd DL,Berg WK

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine autonomic function in response to negatively and positively valenced pictures under different levels of conscious recognition. Heart period variability (HPV) and heart rate (HR) reactivity were studied in 53 males and females who were being shown pictures of angry and happy ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Jönsson P,Sonnby-Borgström M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been suggestions that altered cognitive control and food reward sensitivity contribute to overeating in obese individuals, neurophysiological correlates of these mechanisms have been poorly investigated. The current study investigated event-related potentials (ERP) in 24 severely obese and 26 norma...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Testa G,Buongiorno F,Rusconi ML,Mapelli D,Vettor R,Angeli P,Amodio P,Schiff S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the auditory system, cortical event-related potential amplitudes are enhanced during selective attention within the auditory channel. In the case of brainstem responses, however, the results are less clear since only a few studies have reported attention effects. Nearly all of these studies have used click stimuli ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Galbraith GC,Arroyo C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ERPs to visual language stimuli were recorded in normal children (7-18 years) and adults from Fpz, Fz, Cz, Pz, Oz, F3, F4, C3, C4, P3, P4, T3, T4, T5 and T6. An oddball paradigm was employed with letter discrimination and lexical decision tasks. N2 and P3 latencies decreased significantly with age, N2 until adolescenc...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Taylor MJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal breathing is usually not sensed by the individual. Individuals become aware of their breathing at the cognitive level when breathing pattern is manipulated. Airway obstruction activates lung and muscle mechanoreceptors that project to the somatosensory cortex. Cortical neuronal activation in the somatosensory c...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Chan PY,Davenport PW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol effects on cognitive, emotional and behavioral processes have been linked to an impairment of attention. Because attention operates at the level of specific cognitive subsystems, recent studies demonstrated alcohol effects in specific post-perceptual processes such as response selection and working memory. Mea...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： De Cesarei A,Codispoti M,Schupp HT,Stegagno L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the temperamental traits high-intensity pleasure (temperamental activation) and shyness (temperamental inhibition) in relation to autonomic function as measured by heart rate (HR), respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in 938 10-13-year-old preadolescents from a populatio...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Dietrich A,Riese H,van Roon AM,Minderaa RB,Oldehinkel AJ,Neeleman J,Rosmalen JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interhemispheric transfer measured via differences in right- or left-handed motoric responses to lateralized visual stimuli, known as the crossed-uncrossed difference (CUD), is one way of identifying patterns of processing that are vital for understanding the transfer of neural signals. Examination of interhemispheric...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Simon-Dack SL,Kraus B,Walter Z,Smith S,Cadle C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was concerned with brain potentials elicited by, respectively, the first of a series of stimuli ("initial-orienting reaction", I-OR), and infrequent deviants ("change-orienting reaction", C-OR). Single-trial event-related potentials (ERPs) to visual stimuli were estimated from recordings at Oz, Pz, C...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Kenemans JL,Verbaten MN,Roelofs JW,Slangen JL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past psychological theory and research suggest two opposing relationships between effort and reward valuation. Cognitive dissonance theory and research suggest that increased effort is associated with increased reward valuation, whereas theory and research on effort discounting suggest that increased effort is associa...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Harmon-Jones E,Willoughby C,Paul K,Harmon-Jones C

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six participants (18 female, 18 male) viewed affective pictures to investigate the coupling between emotional reactions and motivated behavior. Framed within the biphasic theory of emotion, the three systems approach was employed by collecting measures of subjective report, expressive physiology, and motivated ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Hillman CH,Rosengren KS,Smith DP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggests that prompting individuals to think on their own mortality affects their perception of painful somatic stimuli and related brain activity. Grounded on the assumption that reminders of mortality may recruit threat-defence mechanisms similar to the ones activated by painful nociceptive stimuli...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Valentini E,Nicolardi V,Aglioti SM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three independent studies are reported in which periods of "relaxation" (A) and presumed stressors (B) were given to female students in an ABA design. The "stressors" were: (1) obligatory time-wasting activity; (2) a mental "IQ" test; and (3) delivering a speech. Saliva was collected immediately after "relaxation" and...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Hinton JW,Burton RF,Farmer JG,Rotheiler E,Shewan D,Gemmell M,Berry J,Gibson R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory scanning and motor response speeds were assessed in chronically sleep restricted participants using the Sternberg item recognition paradigm (SIRP). Twenty-two healthy volunteers (ages 21-30) living in a controlled hospital environment were allowed either 4h of sleep opportunity (50% of habitual sleep) o...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Casement MD,Broussard JL,Mullington JM,Press DZ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether social drinkers whose drinking behavior poses a risk for harmful consequences exhibit altered psychobiological responses to stress following moderate alcohol intake. At risk (n=17) and low risk drinkers (n=27), as identified by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, completed two laboratory...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Nakajima M,Kumar S,Wittmers L,Scott MS,al'Absi M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) has been correlated with lower susceptibility to anxiety and mood disturbance. Since coping styles have been shown to be a critical component of academic achievement, we aimed to assess the relationship between DHEA and coping mechanisms in college students. Participants were recruited an...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Wemm S,Koone T,Blough ER,Mewaldt S,Bardi M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One commonly held hypothesis about the function of REM sleep (RS) concerns the consolidation of plastic processes, particularly those relating to learning and memory. The majority of the experimental data apparently supporting this hypothesis come from RS deprivation (RSD) studies. However, this review points out that...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Horne JA,McGrath MJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of attachment styles on physiological responses during a perspective-taking task. Sixty-eight participants were selected according to attachment styles. Physiological responses were assessed using skin conductance responses (SCRs) in the three attachment groups (secure, insecure-anxious...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Henschel S,Nandrino JL,Pezard L,Ott L,Vulliez-Coady L,Doba K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain more insight into the development of action control, the current brain potential study examined response selection, activation, and selective inhibition during choice- and stop-signal processing in three age groups (8-, 12-, and 21-year-olds). Results revealed that age groups differed in the implementation of ...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： van de Laar MC,van den Wildenberg WP,van Boxtel GJ,van der Molen MW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii, a parasitic protozoan, infects about 30-60% of people worldwide. The latent toxoplasmosis, i.e. life-long presence of cysts in the brain and muscular tissues, has no effect on human health. However, infected subjects score worse in psychomotor performance tests and have different personality profile...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Flegr J,Preiss M,Klose J,Havlícek J,Vitáková M,Kodym P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men outperform women in mental rotation by about one standard deviation. Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been suggested as one cause. In animals it has been shown that a female fetus located between two male ones is exposed to higher levels of testosterone. It is still unclear whether intra-uterine hormone trans...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Heil M,Kavšek M,Rolke B,Beste C,Jansen P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between-person variability in pain sensitivity remains poorly understood. Given a conceptualization of pain as a homeostatic emotion, we hypothesized inverse associations between measures of resting heart rate variability (HRV), an index of autonomic regulation of heart rate that has been linked to emotionality, and s...

journal_title：Biological psychology

authors： Appelhans BM,Luecken LJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00