Trial reportExperimental brain research2014
Stress and decision making: neural correlates of the interaction between stress, executive functions, and decision making under risk.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A multinational analysis of how emotions relate to economic decisions regarding time or risk.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Functional MRI Techniques Suggesting that the Stress System Interacts with Three Large Scale Core Brain Networks to Help Coordinate the Adaptive Response: A Systematic Review.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between brain activity and endogenous and exogenous cortisol - A systematic review.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Pooled it
- Work stress and healthy aging: A conceptual framework for the Semmelweis study and the Semmelweis-EUniWell workplace health promotion model program.GeroScience · 2026Review
- Neurodevelopmental effects of early life stress: PFC and cognition.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Making decisions immediately post-stress: Evidence for dorsolateral prefrontal cortex involvement with an fMRI study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms of maladaptive risk decision-making across psychiatric disorders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Decision-making under stress: A psychological and neurobiological integrative model.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
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- Investigating Weekend Effect in the Management of Upper and Lower Extremity Degloving Injuries.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023Article
- Risky Decision Making Under Stressful Conditions: Men and Women With Smaller Cortisol Elevations Make Riskier Social and Economic Decisions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mental Resilience and Coping With Stress: A Comprehensive, Multi-level Model of Cognitive Processing, Decision Making, and Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Acute stress alters individual risk taking in a time-dependent manner and leads to anti-social risk.The European journal of neuroscience · 2017Article
- Stress Induces Contextual Blindness in Lotteries and Coordination Games.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model.Neurobiology of stress · 2016Review
- Balancing Automatic-Controlled Behaviors and Emotional-Salience States: A Dynamic Executive Functioning Hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Effects of Acute Laboratory Stress on Executive Functions.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Prolonged Effects of Acute Stress on Decision-Making under Risk: A Human Psychophysiological Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Decision Making Under Objective Risk Conditions-a Review of Cognitive and Emotional Correlates, Strategies, Feedback Processing, and External Influences.Neuropsychology review · 2015Review
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Abstract
Stress and additional load on the executive system, produced by a parallel working memory task, impair decision making under risk. However, the combination of stress and a parallel task seems to preserve the decision-making performance [e.g., operationalized by the Game of Dice Task (GDT)] from decreasing, probably by a switch from serial to parallel processing. The question remains how the brain manages such demanding decision-making situations. The current study used a 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system in order to investigate the underlying neural correlates of the interaction between stress (induced by the Trier Social Stress Test), risky decision making (GDT), and a parallel executive task (2-back task) to get a better understanding of those behavioral findings. The results show that on a behavioral level, stressed participants did not show significant differences in task performance. Interestingly, when comparing the stress group (SG) with the control group, the SG showed a greater increase in neural activation in the anterior prefrontal cortex when performing the 2-back task simultaneously with the GDT than when performing each task alone. This brain area is associated with parallel processing. Thus, the results may suggest that in stressful dual-tasking situations, where a decision has to be made when in parallel working memory is demanded, a stronger activation of a brain area associated with parallel processing takes place. The findings are in line with the idea that stress seems to trigger a switch from serial to parallel processing in demanding dual-tasking situations.
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