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The impact of inhibitory control on the acute stress response comparing young and older adults
English
[en] The impact of inhibitory control on the acute stress response comparing young and older adults
Sturgeon, Alana mailto [Universität Luxemburg > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences; Institute for Health and Behavior, Stress, Pain and Gene-Environment Interplay]
van der Meulen, Marian mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Miltner, Wolfgang mailto [Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena > Klinische Psychologie]
Dierolf, Angelika mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
9-Jun-2023
A0 Poster
Yes
No
International
48. Jahrestagung Psychologie & Gehirn
08-06-2023 to 10-06-2023
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Jan Born und das Organisationsteam um Lisa Bastian, Julia Fechner und Max Harkotte
Tübingen
Germany
[en] Aging ; acute Stress ; TSST ; executive functions ; inhibitory control ; HRV ; Go Nogo ; Stroop
[en] Background
Inhibitory control is a core executive function. It involves our ability to think before we act and allows an individual to control their automatic impulses. Executive functions are a mechanism of the prefrontal cortex, which is highly stress sensitive. Research suggests that executive functions positively influence the stress response, with higher executive functions supporting a more successful stress regulation, but it is unclear if that is also the case in older age.
Methods
To investigate this, healthy young (18-30 years) and older participants (65+ years) were asked to perform two inhibitory control tasks (Stroop-Color-Word task and Go/Nogo task) and were then assigned to a stress condition (Trier Social Stress Test) and to the control condition in counterbalanced order in a two-session design. Cardiovascular parameters and self-reported stress were used as indices for the stress response.
Results
First analyses suggest that better inhibitory control is associated with less agitation for the TSST condition in both, young and older adults. While the relationship between response inhibition and the stress response seems to be age-unrelated, preliminary results suggest an age-depended impact of interference control on the physiological stress response.
Conclusion
Since cognitive decline comes with age, older people may be more affected by stress, this could be counterbalanced by training executive functions.
Therefore, these results highlight the importance of inhibitory control and suggest the possibility that enhancing executive function may improve stress management.
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Cognitive Modulation Of Pain In Aging – Impact Of Stress And Executive Functions – A Psychophysiological Approach
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