Chronic exposure to stress hormones, whether it occurs during the prenatal period, infancy,
childhood, adolescence, adulthood or aging, has an impact on brain structures involved in …

The brain is the key organ of stress reactivity, co**, and recovery processes. Within the
brain, a distributed neural circuitry determines what is threatening and thus stressful to the …

Episodic memory and working memory decline with advancing age. Nevertheless, large-
scale population-based studies document well-preserved memory functioning in some older …

In this review, we report on studies that have assessed the effects of exogenous and
endogenous increases in stress hormones on human cognitive performance. We first …

For the last five decades, science has managed to delineate the mechanisms by which
stress hormones can impact on the human brain. Receptors for glucocorticoids are found in …

This review aims to discuss the evidence supporting the link between chronic stress,
cognitive function and mental health. Over the years, the associations between these …

Environmental challenges are part of daily life for any individual. In fact, stress appears to be
increasingly present in our modern, and demanding, industrialized society. Virtually every …

Stress can affect cognition in many ways, with the outcome (ie, facilitating or impairing)
depending on a combination of factors related to both stress and the cognitive function …

Context Hippocampal volume is lower than expected in patients with schizophrenia;
however, whether this represents a fixed deficit is uncertain. Exercise is a stimulus to …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the principal method for studying structural age-
related brain changes in vivo. However, previous research has yielded inconsistent results …