The effects of acute stress on attentional networks and working memory in females

Stone, Caleb; Ney, Luke J.; Felmingham, Kim L.; Nichols, David S.; Matthews, Allison

doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113602

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“…Participants will be excluded if they smoke, consume more than 25 units of alcohol per week, have a habit of using soft or hard drugs, or present a current diagnosis or treatment for specific physical disorders (i.e., cardiovascular, endocrine, diabetes; Jennings et al, 1981;Narvaez Linares et al, 2020;Quintana et al, 2016;Shapiro et al, 1996;Shilton et al, 2017). They will also be free of current psychiatric diagnosis or treatment (e.g., for depression, anxiety; Quintana et al, 2016;Stone et al, 2021;Vila et al, 2019) and will be systematically excluded if they were diagnosed with stress-or anxiety-related disorders (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, general anxiety disorder) in their lifetime, if they are undergoing an unusually stressful period (e.g., separation, divorce, examination, current events), or if they have been previously exposed to the MAST (e.g., Gianferante et al, 2014;Stone et al, 2021).…”

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Executive Functioning and Acute Stress Responses: The Role of Cognitive Appraisals, Repetitive Thinking, and Emotion Regulation

Grimm

Agrigoroaei

2023

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Exposure to stress can have significant, negative consequences on long-term health. Among potentially modifiable targets for promoting more adaptive stress responses, executive functioning has emerged as a promising candidate. These functions may be involved in limiting excessive stress reactivity when exposed to an acute stressor, while also promoting faster recovery (i.e., return to baseline). Fewer studies have been conducted to date on the role of executive functioning in acute stress – especially with a focus on its distinct facets (e.g., inhibition, flexibility, working memory, and updating). Moreover, there is a need for research focused on potential cognitive and behavioral mediators explaining the relationship between executive functioning and stress responses. Thus, the current study sought to examine the extent to which executive functioning facets may play a beneficial role in acute stress reactivity and recovery. Furthermore, we will examine the mediational role of cognitive appraisals, repetitive negative thinking, and emotion regulation. The findings may shed light on existing cognition-stress pathways that promote more adaptive acute stress responses.

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Executive Functioning and Acute Stress Responses: The Role of Cognitive Appraisals, Repetitive Thinking, and Emotion Regulation

Grimm

Agrigoroaei

2023

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“…The effects of stress on learning and new memories formation have been extensively studied, yielding highly variable results, facilitating, or impairing memory depending on the type of stress, intensity, duration, learning task, experimental paradigm, and the moment in which stress occurs (inside or outside the learning context) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Multiple studies in animals and humans have shown that the effects of acute stress on memory are critically dependent on their temporal relationship [7][8][9][10][11][12], where it is assumed that a stressful event improves memory if it is experienced within the context of the learning episode and, on the contrary, negatively affects memory when it is experienced outside the learning context [13].…”

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Class I histone deacetylases inhibition reverses memory impairment induced by acute stress in mice

Martínez-Pacheco,

Zepeda,

Picazo

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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While chronic stress induces learning and memory impairments, acute stress may facilitate or prevent memory consolidation depending on whether it occurs during the learning event or before it, respectively. On the other hand, it has been shown that histone acetylation regulates long-term memory formation. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of two inhibitors of class I histone deacetylases (HDACs), 4-phenylbutyrate (PB) and IN14 (100 mg/kg/day, ip for 2 days), on memory performance in mice exposed to a single 15-min forced swimming stress session. Plasma corticosterone levels were determined 30 minutes after acute swim stress in one group of mice. In another experimental series, independent groups of mice were trained in one of three different memory tasks: Object recognition test, Elevated T maze, and Buried food location test. Subsequently, the hippocampi were removed to perform ELISA assays for histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) expression. Acute stress induced an increase in plasma corticosterone levels, as well as hippocampal HDAC2 content, along with an impaired performance in memory tests. Moreover, PB and IN14 treatment prevented memory loss in stressed mice. These findings suggest that HDAC2 is involved in acute stress-induced cognitive impairment. None of the drugs improved memory in non-stressed animals, indicating that HDACs inhibitors are not cognitive boosters, but rather potentially useful drugs for mitigating memory deficits.

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Extremely negative emotion interferes with cognition: Evidence from ERPs and time-varying brain network

Yang

Zeng

et al. 2023

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

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The effects of acute stress on attentional networks and working memory in females

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

Executive Functioning and Acute Stress Responses: The Role of Cognitive Appraisals, Repetitive Thinking, and Emotion Regulation

Executive Functioning and Acute Stress Responses: The Role of Cognitive Appraisals, Repetitive Thinking, and Emotion Regulation

Class I histone deacetylases inhibition reverses memory impairment induced by acute stress in mice

Extremely negative emotion interferes with cognition: Evidence from ERPs and time-varying brain network

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