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Chapter 22 - SocialStress and Social Approach

from Section VI - Social Emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

By
Markus Heinrichs ,
Frances S. Chen ,
Gregor Domes  and
Robert Kumsta
Edited by
Jorge Armony  and
Patrik Vuilleumier
Jorge Armony
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Patrik Vuilleumier
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
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Summary

Stress is an everyday phenomenon. The effects of stress become manifest on multiple levels, including behavior, subjective experience, cognitive function, and physiology. Recent imaging studies using a stress paradigm for the fMRI environment have shown a specific brain activation pattern under stress, characterized by deactivation in limbic areas. The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) has become the gold standard for the experimental induction of psychological stress. This chapter focuses on studies that have used the method of intranasal administration, which in recent years has been successfully combined with established behavioral and neuroimaging paradigms to clarify oxytocin's (OXT's) actions in the human brain. Overall, the tremendous growth in this research field offers not only a promising new path for exploring the neuroendocrinology of the social brain but also a translational perspective for developing novel treatment strategies for social disorders.

Keywords

action valueschosen valuesdecision valuespost-decisionvalue signalsstimulus-based chosen value signalsoutcome valuesneural mechanismsorbitofrontal cortexvalue-based decision making
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The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience , pp. 509 - 532
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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