Acute stress impairs cognitive flexibility in men, not women

Autor: Brian C. Trainor, Grant S. Shields, Jovian C.W. Lam, Andrew P. Yonelinas
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
sex differences
Male
Aging
Physiology
Neuropsychological Tests
Developmental psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognition
0302 clinical medicine
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
Stress (linguistics)
Aetiology
Young adult
05 social sciences
Cognitive flexibility
Middle Aged
Psychiatry and Mental health
Mental Health
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Wisconsin card sorting test
Female
women
social and economic factors
Psychology
Adult
Memory
Long-Term
Adolescent
Clinical Sciences
men
Stress
Affect (psychology)
Long-Term
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
Article
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Memory
Clinical Research
2.3 Psychological
Behavioral and Social Science
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Acute stress
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Neurosciences
Psychological
Orbitofrontal cortex
orbitofrontal cortex
Mind and Body
Stress
Psychological
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands), vol 19, iss 5
ISSN: 1607-8888
1025-3890
Popis: Psychosocial stress influences cognitive abilities, such as long-term memory retrieval. However, less is known about the effects of stress on cognitive flexibility, which is mediated by different neurobiological circuits and could thus be regulated by different neuroendocrine pathways. In this study, we randomly assigned healthy adults to an acute stress induction or control condition and subsequently assessed participants' cognitive flexibility using an open-source version of the Wisconsin Card Sort task. Drawing on work in rodents, we hypothesized that stress would have stronger impairing effects on cognitive flexibility in men than women. As predicted, we found that stress impaired cognitive flexibility in men but did not significantly affect women. Our results thus indicate that stress exerts sex-specific effects on cognitive flexibility in humans and add to the growing body of research highlighting the need to consider sex differences in effects of stress.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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