Automatic emotional information processing and the cortisol response to acute psychosocial stress

Ellenbogen, Mark A.; Carson, R. B.; Pishva, Rana

doi:10.3758/cabn.10.1.71

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“…Therefore, the present study and Roelofs et al (2007) (2010) evaluated a later-stage attentional bias because of the use of a 500-ms stimulus duration. Since positive correlation between cortisol and attentional bias is found in an early stage attentional bias rather than a late stage attentional bias (Ellenbogen et al 2006(Ellenbogen et al , 2010van Honk et al 1998), the inconsistent results in cortisol actions on attentional bias may be attributable to the difference in its processing stage. In addition, it is possible that differential results are attributable to stimulus valence.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Immediately after the offset of the fixation cross, a depression-related and neutral word pair was presented for 300 ms. It was reported that cortisol is related to an early stage attentional bias rather than a late stage one (Ellenbogen et al 2006(Ellenbogen et al , 2010van Honk et al 1998). Many previous studies using a dot-probe task have used a 500-ms stimulus duration for measuring an early stage attentional bias.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…However, few researches have investigated the association between stress-induced cortisol and attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus and attentional function. Some studies investigated the effects of stress-induced cortisol on attentional bias toward an angry (Roelofs et al 2007) or a threatening stimulus Ellenbogen et al (2010) investigated the effects of attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus on cortisol response to a stressor. However, no study investigated whether stressinduced cortisol influences attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Acutely Elevated Cortisol in Response to Stressor Is Associated with Attentional Bias Toward Depression-Related Stimuli but Is Not Associated with Attentional Function

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Shimada

2011

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Cortisol induces attentional bias toward a negative stimulus and impaired attentional function. Depressed individuals have high levels of cortisol, and exhibit an attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus and impaired processing speed and executive attention, which are components of attentional function. Therefore, the study tested the hypotheses that an acute increase in cortisol in response to a stressor is associated with attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus and impaired processing speed and executive attention. Thirty-six participants were administered the dot-probe task for the measurement of attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus and the Trail Making Test A and B for the measurement of processing speed and executive attention before and after a mental arithmetic task. It was revealed that attentional bias toward a depression-related stimulus following the stressor was observed only among the responders (i.e., participants with cortisol elevation in response to a stressor). On the other hand, no differences in the performance of processing speed and executive attention were noted between the responders and non-responders. The results indicate that acutely elevated cortisol is related to attentional bias, but is not related to processing speed and executive attention. The results have an implication for the etiology of depression.

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“…angry faces, images of combat threat) (e.g. Ellenbogen et al, 2010;McNally et al, 1990) and to exhibit greater amygdala activity when doing so (e.g. Armony et al, 2005).…”

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Cognitive Function Is Preserved in Older Adults With a Reported History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

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Kamiya

Robertson

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Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with mood and cognitive deficits in children and young adults. Evidence suggests that the effects of early-life adversity persist throughout adulthood; however, the impact of CSA on cognition in older adults is largely unknown. This study investigated cognitive function in older adults with a reported history of CSA. Data are from a population-based study (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing) of 6,912 adults aged 50 and older. Participants answered questions about CSA as part of a stressful life events questionnaire. Global cognition, executive function, memory (both objective and self-rated), attention and processing speed were measured via a comprehensive battery of tests. Anxiety and depression, other childhood adversity, health behaviours, chronic disease and medication use were also assessed. 6.5% of the total sample reported CSA. These individuals were more likely to have experienced other forms of childhood adversity and to exhibit poor mental health compared to those who reported no history of CSA. Multivariate regression analyses revealed, however, that CSA was associated with better global cognition, memory, executive function and processing speed, despite poorer psychological health in this group. Future studies should aim to investigate possible reasons for this finding.

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“…Previous studies have reported action monitoring dysfunction-particularly, disrupted error processing (Holmes & Pizzagalli, 2008)-and decreased approachrelated behavior in depressed patients (for a review, see responsible for detecting, generating, and maintaining emotions (Phan, Wager, Taylor, & Liberzon, 2004)-and suggest that this structure is important in early and later stages of the processing of emotional material. Further support for a close relation among attentional processing of emotional material and variations in neurobiological systems comes from an attention paradigm used by Ellenbogen, Carson, and Pishva (2010). Attentional shifting during trials in which masked angry faces were presented predicted changes in cortisol release during a stress induction, suggesting that early automatic processing of emotional stimuli is related to the regulation of the HPA axis stress response.…”

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Attentional control in depression: A translational affective neuroscience approach

Raedt

Koster

Joormann

2010

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Automatic emotional information processing and the cortisol response to acute psychosocial stress

Cited by 33 publications

References 69 publications

Acutely Elevated Cortisol in Response to Stressor Is Associated with Attentional Bias Toward Depression-Related Stimuli but Is Not Associated with Attentional Function

Acutely Elevated Cortisol in Response to Stressor Is Associated with Attentional Bias Toward Depression-Related Stimuli but Is Not Associated with Attentional Function

Cognitive Function Is Preserved in Older Adults With a Reported History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Attentional control in depression: A translational affective neuroscience approach

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