Purpose-The purpose of this paper was to review Work stress literature and its various
definitions, demographics, methodologies and industries/research unit …

Literature investigating whether an individuals' sex affects their executive control abilities
and performance on cognitive tasks in a normative population has been contradictory and …

Background: Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to study and treat psychiatric disorders.
Its fidelity depends in part on the extent to which the VR environment provides a convincing …

An exacerbated physiological response to stress is associated with the development of
stress-related disorders (eg, depression and anxiety disorders). Recently, it has been …

Vagal activity–reflecting the activation of stress regulatory mechanisms and prefrontal cortex
activation–is thought to play an inhibitory role in the regulation of the hypothalamus–pituitary …

We examined the influence of three major environmental variables at the place of residence
as potential moderating variables for neurofunctional activation during a social-stress …

In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in investigating the effects of chronic
and acute stress on cognitive processes, especially memory performance. However …

This literature review provides the first comprehensive qualitative and quantitative
systematic synthesis of acute laboratory stress effects on older adults' cognition by …

The prefrontal cortex, and especially the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC), plays an
inhibitory role in the regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis under …

Aversive events can evoke strong emotions that trigger cerebral neuroactivity to facilitate
behavioral and cognitive shifts to secure physiological stability. However, upon intense …