Enhanced memory for emotional material following stress-level cortisol treatment in humans.

By Tony W. Buchanan, W. Lovallo. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2001

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Impaired Memory Retrieval after Psychosocial Stress in Healthy Young Men (2005, background): “In our current study, as well as in previous studies (Buchanan and Lovallo, 2001; Kuhlmann et al., 2005), the effects of cortisol were similar for positive as well as negative material, which suggests that emotional arousal rather than valence is the crucial aspect of the observed interactions.”
Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory (2011, neutral): “…theory of attention accounts for these object-based effects by assuming that objects in the visual field compete for neural representation (Bundesen, 1990; Bundesen, Habekost, & Kyllingsbaek, 2005; Deco & Rolls, 2005; Desimone, 1998; Desimone & Duncan, 1995; Kastner & Ungerleider, 2001;…”
Stress and memory: opposing effects of glucocorticoids on memory consolidation and memory retrieval. (2002, background): “…studies have found glucocorticoid-induced memory enhancement (Cottrell & Nakajima, 1977; Sandi & Rose, 1994a; Sandi, Loscertales, & Guanza, 1997; Buchanan & Lovallo, 2001), the potentially disruptive effects of glucocorticoids on memory have recently received much attention (Newcomer, Craft,…”
The amygdala modulates the consolidation of memories of emotionally arousing experiences. (2004, background): “The stress hormone cortisol administered prior to presentations of words or pictures enhanced subsequent recall (Abercrombie et al. 2003, Buchanan & Lovallo 2001).”
Cognition and suicide : Theory, research, and therapy (2006, background): “Unfortunately, children have a stronger memory trace for negative events than for positive ones (Armony & LeDoux, 1997; Buchanan & Lovallo, 2001; Cahill, Roozendaal, & McGaugh, 1997).”
Stress, memory and the amygdala (2009, background): “For example, recent findings indicate that adrenal stress hormones modulate the consolidation of memory for emotionally arousing experiences that induce the release of noradrenaline into the amygdala, but do not affect memory consolidation of neutral informatio”
Overnight Therapy? The Role of Sleep in Emotional Brain Processing (2009, background): “Emotionally arousing stimuli are consistently remembered better than neutral stimuli both in experimental laboratory studies and in real life accounts (Bradley, Greenwald, Petry, & Lang, 1992; Buchanan & Lovallo, 2001; Christianson, 1992; Heuer & Reisberg, 1990).”
When less is more (2004, background): “Buchanan and Lovallo (2001), likewise, found that subjects’ memory performance was positively correlated with the degree of emotional intensity of the stimuli (slides) presented.”
Enhanced human memory consolidation with post-learning stress: interaction with the degree of arousal at encoding. (2003, background): “Similarly, Buchanan and Lovallo (2001) reported that pre-learning cortisol administration selectively enhanced longtermmemory of arousing pictures.”
Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research. (2004, background): “Heightened HPA activity has been associated with depressive symptomology (E. S. Brown & Suppes, 1998; Heim & Nemeroff, 1999) and can have effects on memory (e.g., Buchanan & Lovallo, 2001; Kirschbaum, Wolf, May, Wippich, & Hellhammer, 1996; Lupien et al., 1997).”
Enhanced performance on executive functions associated with examination stress: Evidence from task-switching and Stroop paradigms (2006, background): “Exogenous cortisol facilitated acquisition of verbal or pictorial stimuli (Abercombie, Kalin, Thurow, Rosenkranz, & Davidson, 2003; Buchanan & Lovallo 2001; Tops et al., 2003) and reduced reaction time in a spatial task in healthy volunteers (Young et al., 1999).”
The effects of stress and stress hormones on human cognition: Implications for the field of brain and cognition. (2007, background): “In contrast to the data obtained by Buchanan and Lovallo (2001), these results showed beneficial effects of synthetic glucocorticoids on both emotionally arousing and neutral material.”