The stressed prefrontal cortex and goal-directed behaviour: acute psychosocial stress impairs the flexible implementation of task goals

Inflexibly Focused under Stress: Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Shielding of Action Goals at the Expense of Reduced Cognitive Flexibility with Increasing Time Lag to the Stressor

(2011) Franziska Plessow et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Chronic sleep curtailment impairs the flexible implementation of task goals in new parents

(2010) FRANZISKA PLESSOW et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

Control and interference in task switching—A review.

(2010) Andrea Kiesel et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Acute Psychological Stress Reduces Working Memory-Related Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

(2009) Shaozheng Qin et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The effect of 40 h constant wakefulness on task-switching efficiency

(2009) DANIEL BRATZKE et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function

(2009) Amy F. T. Arnsten   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control

(2009) C. Liston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neuroendocrine and psychometric evaluation of a placebo version of the ‘Trier Social Stress Test’

(2009) S. Het et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Salivary alpha-amylase as a non-invasive biomarker for the sympathetic nervous system: Current state of research

(2009) U.M. Nater et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Determinants of salivary α-amylase in humans and methodological considerations

(2009) Nicolas Rohleder et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Working memory costs of task switching.

(2008) Baptist Liefooghe et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

An integrated model of cognitive control in task switching.

(2008) Erik M. Altmann et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Glucose metabolic changes in the prefrontal cortex are associated with HPA axis response to a psychosocial stressor

(2008) Simone Kern et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Psychosocial stress induces working memory impairments in an n-back paradigm

(2008) Daniela Schoofs et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY