Since its development in 1993, the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) has been used widely as
a psychosocial stress paradigm to activate the sympathetic nervous system and …

Heart rate variability (HRV) is the inter-beat interval variation between consecutive
heartbeats and an autonomic reflection of emotional regulatory abilities to flexibly respond to …

Background Maternal exposure to adversity during pregnancy has been found to affect
infant brain development; however, the specific effect of prenatal crime exposure on …

Health and disease are strongly linked to psychophysiological states. While stress research
strongly benefits from standardized stressors, no established protocol focuses on the …

Objective The aims of the present study were twofold: 1) to examine the effects of a virtual
reality version of Trier Social Stress Test (TSST-VR) using a placebo as the control …

Individuals with depression have the highest lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts (SA)
among mental illnesses. Numerous neuroimaging studies have developed biomarkers from …

Although women and men differ in psychological and endocrine stress responses as well as
in the prevalence rates of stress-related disorders, knowledge on sex differences regarding …

Post-stroke depression and executive dysfunction co-occur and are highly debilitating. Few
treatments alleviate both depression and executive dysfunction after stroke. Understanding …

We develop a theory for functional independent component analysis in an infinite-
dimensional framework using Sobolev spaces that accommodate smoother functions. The …

The investigation of the relationship between neural measures of limbic structures and
hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis responses to acute stress exposure in healthy young …