Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control

By Conor Liston, Bruce S. McEwen, B. Casey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Oxidative Stress and the Central Nervous System (2017, positive): “Our own preclinical work has suggested that behavioral and cognitive deficits are attributed to three brain regions: hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex (PFC) (Masood et al., 2008; Salim et al., 2010a,b, 2011a,b; Patki et al., 2013a; 2013b; Solanki et al., 2015).”
Conclusions about Interventions, Programs, and Approaches for Improving Executive Functions that appear Justified and those that, despite much hype, do not (2015, background): “Stress or a depressed mood impairs EFs (Arnsten, 1998; Liston et al., 2009; Schoofs et al., 2009).”
Adolescent neurodevelopment. (2013, background): “Indeed, stressful and emotionally arousing situations have been shown to attenuate activity in PFC and other frontal regions (32), while at the same time increasing activity in subcortical regions modulating emotional reactivity such as the amygdala, as discussed later.”
Brain On Stress: Vulnerability and Plasticity of the Prefrontal Cortex Over the Life Course (2013, positive): “In studies on medical students during the school year, perceived stress scores predicted performance on a cognitive flexibility test, as well as reduced functional connectivity in fMRI imaging during that test; these effects largely disappeared after the students had a summer vacation (Liston et al.”
Stress and Obesity. (2019, background): “…can undermine self-regulatory cognitive processes such as executive functioning (Pechtel & Pizzagalli 2011) and interferes with the brain areas responsible for self-regulation (Liston et al. 2009). www.annualreviews.org • Stress and Obesity 5.3 Review in Advance first posted on June 21, 2018.”
Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function (2009, neutral): “and in medical students as they studied for the Board”
Default Mode Network Mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Depression (2014, background): “In a previous study (55), a remarkably similar pattern of deficits was identified in healthy human subjects that were exposed to chronic stress.”
Executive Functions (2012, neutral): “They suffer first, and most, if you are stressed (Arnsten 1998, Liston et al. 2009, Oaten & Cheng 2005), sad (Hirt et al. 2008, von Hecker & Meiser 2005), lonely (Baumeister et al. 2002, Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Campbell et al. 2006, Tun et al. 2012), sleep deprived (Barnes et al. 2012, Huang et…”
How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement. (2013, background): “It also impairs behaviors; reduces attentional control (Liston, McEwen, & Casey, 2009); boosts impulsivity (Evans, 2003); and impairs working memory (Evans & Schamberg, 2009).”
Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin (2012, background): “For the medial prefrontal cortex, stressinduced impairment has been linked to poor cognitive flexibility in both animal and human studies (66, 68, 69).”