Controlling intrusive thoughts of future fears under stress.

Stephanie M Ashton, Tom Smeets, Conny W E M Quaedflieg

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Article in Neurobiology of stress, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed

2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

Learning from imagined experiences via an endogenous prediction error.Nature communications · 2025
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Neural correlates of suppressing and imagining future threat.Scientific reports · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie M AshtonDepartment of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Tom SmeetsDepartment of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Center of Research on Psychological Disorders and Somatic Diseases (CoRPS), Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Conny W E M QuaedfliegDepartment of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Maastricht University · NLTilburg University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Negative outlooks of our future may foster unwanted and intrusive thoughts. To some extent, individuals have control over their ability to suppress intrusions and downregulate their frequency. Acute stress impairs intentional suppression, leading to an increased frequency of intrusions. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the mechanism underlying stress-induced impairments in intentional suppression of intrusions by investigating the combined and independent roles of the two major stress hormones, noradrenaline and cortisol. Healthy participants (

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Acute stressCortisolEpisodic future thinkingIntrusionsMetyraponePropranolol

Identifiers

PMID38025283

DOI10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100582

PMCPMC10656271

OpenAlexW4388153214

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