Interpreting EEG alpha activity

OM Bazanova, D Vernon - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Exploring EEG alpha oscillations has generated considerable interest, in particular with
regards to the role they play in cognitive, psychomotor, psycho-emotional and physiological …

Making room for oxytocin in understanding depression

RJ McQuaid, OA McInnis, A Abizaid… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Depression is accompanied by an array of neurobiological variations, including altered HPA
axis activity, monoamine, growth factor and inflammatory immune functioning. In addition, a …

Assessment of mental stress effects on prefrontal cortical activities using canonical correlation analysis: an fNIRS-EEG study

F Al-Shargie, TB Tang, M Kiguchi - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents an investigation about the effects of mental stress on prefrontal cortex
(PFC) subregions using simultaneous measurement of functional Near-Infrared …

Oxytocin buffers cortisol responses to stress in individuals with impaired emotion regulation abilities

M Quirin, J Kuhl, R Düsing - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2011 - Elsevier
Oxytocin facilitates stress regulation but little is known about individual differences in this
effect. The present study investigates whether the effect of intranasal oxytocin on stress …

EEG-based workload estimation across affective contexts

C Mühl, C Jeunet, F Lotte - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Workload estimation from electroencephalographic signals (EEG) offers a highly sensitive
tool to adapt the human–computer interaction to the user state. To create systems that …

Anxiety, cortisol, and attachment predict plasma oxytocin

M Tops, JM Van Peer, J Korf, AA Wijers… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Oxytocin and attachment seem to interact in suppressing subjective anxiety and
physiological stress responses. In this study we investigated the relationships between …

The functional role of individual-alpha based frontal asymmetry in stress responding

C Quaedflieg, T Meyer, FTY Smulders, T Smeets - Biological psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Asymmetry in frontal electrical activity has been suggested to index tendencies in affective
responding and thus may be associated with hormonal stress responses. To assess the …

Endotoxemia-induced inflammation and the effect on the human brain

M Van den Boogaard, BP Ramakers, N van Alfen… - Critical care, 2010 - Springer
Introduction Effects of systemic inflammation on cerebral function are not clear, as both
inflammation-induced encephalopathy as well as stress-hormone mediated alertness have …

Do venepuncture procedures induce cortisol responses? A review, study, and synthesis for stress research

LJ Weckesser, F Plessow, M Pilhatsch… - …, 2014 - Elsevier
Venepuncture procedures are frequently employed to continuously monitor humoral stress
markers. As such procedures are conceived as “potent psychological and physiological …

Individual measures of electroencephalogram alpha activity and non-verbal creativity

OM Bazanova, LI Aftanas - Neuroscience and behavioral physiology, 2008 - Springer
The aim of the present work was to study correlational interactions between individual
measures of alpha-activity in the baseline electroencephalogram (maximum peak …