ReviewNeurobiology of learning and memory2023
Stress, associative learning, and decision-making.
Review in Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Online and in-person stress induction in a quasi-avoidance-based Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Individual threat-relevance accelerates belief-updating in conditioned hallucinations.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Estrous cycle stage gates the effect of stress on reward learning.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Striatal Acetylcholine Dip-Rebound Is Induced by Direct-Pathway Neurons and Encode Action-Outcome Contingency.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Assessing circuit function in the developingFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Acute neurology simulation-based training boosts confidence and reduces anxiety in novice neurology residents and nursing staff.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Stress induces distinct social behavior states encoded by the ventral hippocampus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Linking intrinsic brain dysfunction to behavioral outcomes in combat-exposed males with PTSD symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The mediating role of anxiety and depressive symptoms on the relationship between physical limitations and cognitive impairment among older adults in China: differences based on religious perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Shaping behaviors through social experience and their proposed sensitivity to stress.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- The Neurocircuitry of Substance Use Disorder, Treatment, and Change: A Resource for Clinical Psychiatrists.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Chronic Social Defeat Stress Induces Pathway-Specific Adaptations at Lateral Habenula Neuronal Outputs.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sex-dependent effects of acute stress in adolescence or adulthood on appetitive motivation.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Coping with Examination Stress: An Emotion Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Acute stress promotes effort mobilization for safety-related goals.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Sex and estrous cycle effects on stress-enhanced fear learning in Long-Evans rats.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Exposure to acute and chronic stress has significant effects on the basic mechanisms of associative learning and memory. Stress can both impair and enhance associative learning depending on type, intensity, and persistence of the stressor, the subject's sex, the context that the stress and behavior is experienced in, and the type of associative learning taking place. In some cases, stress can cause or exacerbate the maladaptive behavior that underlies numerous psychiatric conditions including anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, and others. Therefore, it is critical to understand how the varied effects of stress, which may normally facilitate adaptive behavior, can also become maladaptive and even harmful. In this review, we highlight several findings of associative learning and decision-making processes that are affected by stress in both human and non-human subjects and how they are related to one another. An emerging theme from this work is that stress biases behavior towards less flexible strategies that may reflect a cautious insensitivity to changing contingencies. We consider how this inflexibility has been observed in different associative learning procedures and suggest that a goal for the field should be to clarify how factors such as sex and previous experience influence this inflexibility.
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