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Stress Responses and Cortisol Statistics

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Impact of anxiety on prefrontal cortex encoding of cognitive flexibility

Junchol Park, Bita Moghaddam
Neuroscience Summary & key facts 2016 221 citations

This review looks at studies in humans and animals that link anxiety and stress with poorer cognitive flexibility — the ability to change strategies when rules or goals change. It describes evidence that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to flexible behavior, that anxiety or PFC disruptions are associated with…

Memory and Neural Mechanisms Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Stress Responses and Cortisol
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