Making decisions immediately post-stress: Evidence for dorsolateral prefrontal cortex involvement with an fMRI study.

ABSTRACT: Identifying neural markers might help to investigate the specific effects of stress on risky decision-making and to understand the behavioral interventions for risk adjustment. It is proposed that stress makes decision-making less deliberate. We employ fMRI to investigate this, with stress and post-stress decision-making occurring during the same fMRI session with a minimal stress-to-decision-making latency and concurrent electrodermal activity (EDA) measurement. In this within-subject study (40 participants, 18 males, M_age = 24.6 ± 3.9 years), participants performed the "decision-making under risk" task twice: immediately following stress induction, and after a control condition. The order of the stress and control conditions was counterbalanced. Stress was induced by asking pa

SUBMITTER: Mulay R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12464067 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature