Differential brain activity as a function of social evaluative stress in early adolescence: Brain function and salivary cortisol.

ABSTRACT: Understanding individual differences in neural responses to stressful environments is an important avenue of research throughout development. These differences may be especially critical during adolescence, which is characterized by opportunities for healthy development and increased susceptibility to the development of psychopathology. While the neural correlates of the psychosocial stress response have been investigated in adults, these links have not been explored during development. Using a new task, the Minnesota Imaging Stress Test in Children (MISTiC), differences in activation are found in fusiform gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, insula, and anterior cingulate cortex when comparing a stressful math task to a nonstressful math task. The MISTiC task successfully elicits cortisol respo

SUBMITTER: Herzberg MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7909600 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature