Effort-based decision making is sensitive to the effects of acute stress

Acute stress can either exert beneficial or detrimental effects on different forms of cognition, and these effects may be mediated in part by enhanced glucocorticoid and dopaminergic activity. Recent studies in humans have shown that acute stress disrupts certain aspects of cost/benefit decision mak...

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Main Author: Shafiei, Naghmeh
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36389