Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
Cognitive benefit and cost of acute stress is differentially modulated by individual brain state.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Go with the (Blood) Flow: A Systematic Review on the Relationship Between Dynamic Functional Connectivity and Information Processing Speed.Neuropsychology review · 2026Pooled 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
- Effects of blue light during and after exposure on auditory working memory.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2025Trial
- Measuring inter-individual differences in stress sensitivity during MR-guided prostate biopsy.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- I'm going to fail! Acute cognitive performance anxiety increases threat-interference and impairs WM performance.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Network activation and its association with perceived stress underlie performance under stressful high demand.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- From Stress to Neurodegeneration: A New Look at the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Hepatic sEH drives stress-induced neuroinflammation via IL-6 and liver-brain axis.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Acute Stress Facilitates Cognitive Control in Healthy Men: an fNIRS Study.Brain topography · 2025Article
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- I "Gut" Rhythm: the microbiota as a modulator of the stress response and circadian rhythms.The FEBS journal · 2025Review
- Effects of voluntary or involuntary exercise in adolescent male rats exposed to chronic social isolation on cognition, behavior, and neurotrophic factors.Biologia futura · 2025Article
- Revisiting Cognitive Deficits in Outpatients with Psychotic Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Comparison of Cognitive Performance While Accounting for Putative Confounding Factors.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults.Psychological research · 2022Article
- The effect of perceived stress on cognition is mediated by personality and the underlying neural mechanism.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Mild early-life stress exaggerates the impact of acute stress on corticolimbic resting-state functional connectivity.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Inter-relationships between changes in stress, mindfulness, and dynamic functional connectivity in response to a social stressor.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effects of a Multi-Suckling System Combined With Enriched Housing Post-Weaning on Response and Cognitive Resilience to Isolation.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Neuroinflammation in cognitive decline post-cardiac surgery (the FOCUS study): an observational study protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- From Wellbeing to Social Media and Back: A Multi-Method Approach to Assessing the Bi-Directional Relationship Between Wellbeing and Social Media Use.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Acute stress is associated with beneficial as well as detrimental effects on cognition in different individuals. However, it is not yet known how stress can have such opposing effects. Stroop-like tasks typically show this dissociation: stress diminishes speed, but improves accuracy. We investigated accuracy and speed during a stroop-like task of 120 healthy male subjects after an experimental stress induction or control condition in a randomized, counter-balanced cross-over design; we assessed brain-behavior associations and determined the influence of individual brain connectivity patterns on these associations, which may moderate the effect and help identify stress resilience factors. In the mean, stress was associated to increase in accuracy, but decrease in speed. Accuracy was associated to brain activation in a distributed set of brain regions overlapping with the executive control network (ECN) and speed to temporo-parietal activation. In line with a stress-related large-scale network reconfiguration, individuals showing an upregulation of the salience and down-regulation of the executive-control network under stress displayed increased speed, but decreased performance. In contrast, individuals who upregulate their ECN under stress show improved performance. Our results indicate that the individual large-scale brain network balance under acute stress moderates cognitive consequences of threat.
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