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Effect of the Cold Pressor Test on Memory and Cognitive Flexibility
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- 10.1080/13554790701441403
pages 154-157
Available online: 04 Sep 2007Abstract
Cognitive flexibility is affected by stress. The cold pressor test is a known adrenergic stressor that impairs memory, but the effect on cognitive flexibility is unknown. Sixteen subjects were given cognitive flexibility and memory tasks with and without one hand immersed in cold water. Memory was impaired in the cold pressor condition but there was no effect on cognitive flexibility. The lack of a cold pressor effect on cognitive flexibility may result from an isolated effect on the peripheral noradrenergic system, whereas indirect effects due to nociception on memory may occur.
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- Available online: 04 Sep 2007
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- a Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
- b Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA
- c Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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