Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood

By Jens C. Pruessner, Mark W. Baldwin, Katarina Dedovic, R. Renwick, N. Khalili-Mahani, Catherine Lord, M. Meaney, Sonia J. Lupien. NeuroImage, 2005

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Social Psychology

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In Behavioral Neuroscience

1. Bruce S. McEwen
2. Megan R. Gunnar
3. Julie Andrews
4. Jens C. Pruessner
5. R. Sullivan
6. Camelia E. Hostinar
7. Margaret A Sheridan
8. Nim Tottenham

In Biological Psychiatry

1. Julie Andrews
2. Megan R. Gunnar
3. Jens C. Pruessner
4. Bruce S. McEwen
5. E. Nestler
6. V. Krishnan
7. Margaret A Sheridan
8. J. Wingfield

In Social Psychology

1. Bruce S. McEwen
2. Julie Andrews
3. Megan R. Gunnar
4. Jens C. Pruessner
5. R. Sullivan
6. Camelia E. Hostinar
7. Margaret A Sheridan
8. Nim Tottenham

Citations in the corpus

• The brain and the stress axis: The neural correlates of cortisol regulation in response to stress (2009, background): “response to a neuroimaging stress task (Pruessner et al., 2005).”
• Central effects of stress hormones in health and disease: Understanding the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators. (2008, background): “Furthermore, poor self esteem and low internal locus of control have been related to 12–13% smaller volume of the hippocampus, as well as higher cortisol levels during a mental arithmetic stressor (Pruessner et al., 1999; Pruessner et al., 2005).”
• Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Social Buffering of the HPA Axis: A Review of Animal Models and Human Studies across Development (2013, background): “Both younger and elderly adults with low self-esteem have smaller hippocampi compared to adults with high self-esteem (Pruessner et al., 2005), but again causality is not clear in any of these studies.”