Stress, corticotropin‐releasing factor and cognitive flexibility

Stress impairs cognitive flexibility in infants.

In human adults, learning and memory under acute stress are characterized by an increased use of rigid habitual response strategies at the cost of flexible cognitive strategies. The immediate effects of stress on cognitive functioning early in life are not well understood. Here we show experimentally that acute stress leads human infants to perform habitual behavior rigidly. We found that 15-mo...

Influence of psychosocial stress on cognitive flexibility

The Role of Meta-Cognitive Belief, Perceived Stress and Cognitive Flexibility in Predicting the Suicidal Thoughts of Male Adolescents

Introduction: The present study was conducted to determine the role of meta-cognitive belief, perceived stress and cognitive flexibility in predicting the suicidal thoughts of male students. Methods: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population included all male high school adolescents in Ardabil during 2019-2020. of the population, 350 subjects were selecte...

The Role of Meta-Cognitive Belief, Perceived Stress and Cognitive Flexibility in Predicting the Suicidal Thoughts of Male Adolescents

Introduction: The present study was conducted to determine the role of meta-cognitive belief, perceived stress and cognitive flexibility in predicting the suicidal thoughts of male students. Methods: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population included all male high school adolescents in Ardabil during 2019-2020. of the population, 350 subjects were selecte...

Acute stress impairs cognitive flexibility in men, not women.

Psychosocial stress influences cognitive abilities, such as long-term memory retrieval. However, less is known about the effects of stress on cognitive flexibility, which is mediated by different neurobiological circuits and could thus be regulated by different neuroendocrine pathways. In this study, we randomly assigned healthy adults to an acute stress induction or control condition and subse...