Neural, Hormonal, and Cognitive Correlates of Metabolic Dysfunction and Emotional Reactivity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (i.e., hyperglycemia) are characterized by insulin resistance. These problems with energy metabolism may exacerbate emotional reactivity to negatively valenced stimuli and related phenomena such as predisposition toward negative affect, as well as cognitive deficits. Higher emotional reactivity is seen with hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. However, it is largely unknown how metabolic dysfunction correlates with related neural, hormonal, and cognitive outcomes.

Methods

Among 331 adults from the Midlife in the United States study, eye-blink response (EBR) we cross sectionally examined to gauge reactivity to negative, positive, or neutrally valenced pictures from international affect picture system stimuli proximal to an acoustic s

SUBMITTER: Wolf T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976543 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature