Clemens Kirschbaum

TL;DR: Examination of relation between stress-induced sAA activity with NE and E by exposing a larger and less constrained sample to an effective stress protocol shows an association between stress responses of sAA and plasma NE, which is stronger than the association of norepinephrine and epinephrine responses, thus placing the predictive power of s AA well within the expected range for different SNS markers.

TL;DR: Cortisol changes after bicycle ergometry revealed no impact of genetic factors on the secretion of cortisol in response to strenuous physical exercise, and heredity appeared to be play a minor role in the adrenocortical response to psychological stress.

TL;DR: The present study provides the first evidence for long-lasting effects of antenatal synthetic GC exposure on HPA-axis reactivity in term-born children, and may bear important implications regarding the vulnerability for stress-related physical and psychiatric disorders.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for a stress-induced time-dependent decrease of cognitive flexibility that might be related to changes in cortisol levels, which paralleled the time course of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) stress response.

TL;DR: Greater cortisol responses to an acute stressor and/or dysregulated patterns of daily cortisol secretion are associated with shorter telomere length, as were higher overnight urinary free cortisol levels and flatter daytime cortisol slopes.