ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2017
Low lifetime stress exposure is associated with reduced stimulus-response memory.
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- Cumulative lifetime stressor exposure assessed by the STRAIN predicts economic ambiguity aversion.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Markers of a plant-based diet relate to memory and executive function in older adults.Nutritional neuroscience · 2022Article
- Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Associations between lifetime stress exposure and prenatal health behaviors.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2020Article
- Memory biases in alcohol use disorder: enhanced memory for contexts associated with alcohol prospectively predicts alcohol use outcomes.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Threat-induced modulation of hippocampal and striatal memory systems during navigation of a virtual environment.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2020Article
- Life Stress and Suicide in Adolescents.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adolescents (Adolescent STRAIN): associations with mental and physical health, risky behaviors, and psychiatric diagnoses in youth seeking treatment.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2019Article
- Enhancing memory with stress: Progress, challenges, and opportunities.Brain and cognition · 2019Review
- Greater lifetime stress exposure predicts blunted cortisol but heightened DHEA responses to acute stress.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2019Article
- The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in Brazilian Portuguese: Initial Validation and Links With Executive Function, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2018Review
- Assessing Lifetime Stress Exposure Using the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN): An Overview and Initial Validation.Psychosomatic medicine · 2018Article
- Recent life stress exposure is associated with poorer long-term memory, working memory, and self-reported memory.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Exposure to stress throughout life can cumulatively influence later health, even among young adults. The negative effects of high cumulative stress exposure are well-known, and a shift from episodic to stimulus-response memory has been proposed to underlie forms of psychopathology that are related to high lifetime stress. At the other extreme, effects of very low stress exposure are mixed, with some studies reporting that low stress leads to better outcomes, while others demonstrate that low stress is associated with diminished resilience and negative outcomes. However, the influence of very low lifetime stress exposure on episodic and stimulus-response memory is unknown. Here we use a lifetime stress assessment system (STRAIN) to assess cumulative lifetime stress exposure and measure memory performance in young adults reporting very low and moderate levels of lifetime stress exposure. Relative to moderate levels of stress, very low levels of lifetime stress were associated with reduced use and retention (24 h later) of stimulus-response (SR) associations, and a higher likelihood of using context memory. Further, computational modeling revealed that participants with low levels of stress exhibited worse expression of memory for SR associations than those with moderate stress. These results demonstrate that very low levels of stress exposure can have negative effects on cognition.
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