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| Oliver T WolfSummaryAffiliation: University of Bielefeld Country: Germany Publications
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Mood changes in response to psychosocial stress in healthy young women: effects of pretreatment with cortisolSerkan Het
Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurosci 121:11-20. 2007..Results are discussed with regard to the context of specific adaptive effects of cortisol and the role of cortisol in posttraumatic stress disorder...- The influence of stress hormones on emotional memory: relevance for psychopathologyOliver T Wolf
Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 10 01 31, D 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Acta Psychol (Amst) 127:513-31. 2008..Finally, the relevance of these findings for emotional memory disturbances in psychiatric disorders is exemplified by discussions on neuroendocrine alterations in depression, post traumatic stress disorder and phobias... 
Anticipatory stress influences decision making under explicit risk conditionsKatrin Starcke
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurosci 122:1352-60. 2008..Our results indicate that stress can lead to disadvantageous decision making even when explicit and stable information about outcome contingencies is provided...- A non-arousing test situation abolishes the impairing effects of cortisol on delayed memory retrieval in healthy womenSabrina Kuhlmann
Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D- 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Neurosci Lett 399:268-72. 2006..84). The results indicate that the experimental setting can influence the effect of cortisol on memory. Our findings suggest that glucocorticoid effects on memory retrieval require testing-associated arousal in humans... - Decision-making and neuroendocrine responses in pathological gamblersKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Psychiatry Res 153:233-43. 2007..Accordingly, the increase of sAA--as an indirect marker of sympathetic nervous system activity--in those patients with less severe decision-making deficits could reflect the use of somatic markers biasing the decision-making process... - Arousal and cortisol interact in modulating memory consolidation in healthy young menSabrina Kuhlmann
Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurosci 120:217-23. 2006..No effects of cortisol treatment were observed for recognition memory or mood. Results support the notion that glucocorticoids specifically enhance the consolidation of emotional material... - Stress, health and ageing: a focus on postmenopausal womenOliver T Wolf
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitatsstrasse 150, D 44780 Bochum, Germany
Menopause Int 14:129-33. 2008..At the end, the concept of allostatic load (AL) is described, which aims at a broader assessment of the impact of stress on the individual. The strengths and also the current limitations of the AL concept are highlighted... - Hypothalamic blood flow correlates positively with stress-induced cortisol levels in subjects with social anxiety disorderFredrik Ahs
Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1225, SE 751 42 Uppsala, Sweden
Psychosom Med 68:859-62. 2006..Another objective was to evaluate whether salivary cortisol levels correlated with rCBF in other brain areas... - Endogenous cortisol level interacts with noradrenergic activation in the human amygdalaAnda H van Stegeren
University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Science Center, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neurobiol Learn Mem 87:57-66. 2007.... - Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation and memory impairments in type 2 diabetesHannah Bruehl
Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:2439-45. 2007..There is evidence of both hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis and cognitive dysfunction in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the exact nature and the associations between these abnormalities remain unclear... - The cortisol awakening response is blunted in psychotherapy inpatients suffering from depressionThomas J Huber
Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover, Carl Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:900-4. 2006..Further studies will be needed to disentangle the complex relationship between depression and the ACR... - Basal hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and corticotropin feedback in young and older men: relationships to magnetic resonance imaging-derived hippocampus and cingulate gyrus volumesOliver T Wolf
Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Neuroendocrinology 75:241-9. 2002..It remains possible that age-associated changes in fast feedback may be related to changes to other brain sites, such as hypothalamus or pituitary... - Subjective memory complaints in aging are associated with elevated cortisol levelsOliver T Wolf
Institute for Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Neurobiol Aging 26:1357-63. 2005..Differences in personality traits or in stress susceptibility might underlie the present findings. Future studies of memory complaints should take a comprehensive approach including relevant endocrine parameters... - Moderate psychosocial stress appears not to impair recall of words learned 4 weeks prior to stress exposureOliver T Wolf
Institute of Experimental Psychology II, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Stress 5:59-64. 2002..Among them is the small sample size, the moderate cortisol increase in response to the second stress exposure but also the long recall delay, which might lead to memory traces less susceptible to stress... - Salivary cortisol day profiles in elderly with mild cognitive impairmentOliver T Wolf
Center for Brain Health, Neuroimaging Laboratory, New York University School of Medicine, 560 First Avenue, NY, New York 10016, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 27:777-89. 2002..Whether cortisol levels, in conjunction with other factors, such as hippocampal volume, will lead to improved prediction of future decline to AD in participants with MCI remains to be established in longitudinal studies... - Impaired memory retrieval after psychosocial stress in healthy young menSabrina Kuhlmann
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
J Neurosci 25:2977-82. 2005..The present study thus demonstrates that psychosocial stress impairs memory retrieval in humans and suggests that emotionally arousing material is especially sensitive to this effect... - Psychosocial stress induces working memory impairments in an n-back paradigmDaniela Schoofs
Department of Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitatsstr 150, D 44780 Bochum, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:643-53. 2008..Thus, the effects of stress became smaller the longer the task was performed. Results provide further evidence for impaired working memory after acute stress and illustrate the time course of this phenomenon... - Glucocorticoid therapy-induced memory deficits: acute versus chronic effectsDaniel Coluccia
Department of Psychiatry Research, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurosci 28:3474-8. 2008..Thus, these findings indicate that memory deficits observed under chronically elevated glucocorticoid levels result, at least in part, from acute and reversible glucocorticoid effects on memory retrieval... - Salivary alpha amylase and cortisol responses to different stress tasks: impact of sexAnda H van Stegeren
University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Psychophysiol 69:33-40. 2008..Men had higher sAA levels than women during the complete course of the study, but men and women were comparable in their responsivity to the tasks. No strong correlations between sAA and CORT responses were found... - Salivary alpha amylase as marker for adrenergic activity during stress: effect of betablockadeAnda van Stegeren
Department of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:137-41. 2006..The current pharmacological study in the human provides direct evidence for the sensitivity of sAA to changes in adrenergic activation, specifically in reaction to psychological stress... - Interaction of endogenous cortisol and noradrenaline in the human amygdalaAnda H van Stegeren
Department of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Science Center, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prog Brain Res 167:263-8. 2008..These data support the hypothesis that high endogenous cortisol levels at the time of encoding interact with noradrenergic activation in the amygdala in man... - Hypercholesterolemia in Asperger syndrome: independence from lifestyle, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and social anxietyIsabel Dziobek
Center for Brain Health, HN 400, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Psychiatry Res 149:321-4. 2007..A potential role for dyslipidemia in the pathogenesis of some forms of autism is discussed... 
Reduced glucose tolerance is associated with poor memory performance and hippocampal atrophy among normal elderlyAntonio Convit
Center for Brain Health, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2019-22. 2003..This observation may bring to light a mechanism for aging brain injury that may have substantial medical impact, given the large number of elderly individuals with impaired glucose metabolism...- No morning cortisol response in patients with severe global amnesiaOliver T Wolf
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Geb 23 02, Ebene 01, Room 43, Universitaetsstrasse 1, D 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 30:101-5. 2005..Further studies are needed to understand the neurological or psychological mechanisms leading to a missing morning cortisol response in amnesic patients... - Effects of the menstrual cycle on auditory event-related potentialsVerena Walpurger
Department of Psychoneuroendocrinology, , , Germany
Horm Behav 46:600-6. 2004..Future ERP studies therefore need to be more attentive to the issue of menstrual phase when studying female subjects or female patients... - Effects of oral cortisol treatment in healthy young women on memory retrieval of negative and neutral wordsSabrina Kuhlmann
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Neurobiol Learn Mem 83:158-62. 2005..01), while having no significant effect on neutral words (p=.47). The current findings could suggest that emotional material is especially sensitive to the memory modulating effects of stress hormones... - Estradiol or estradiol/progesterone treatment in older women: no strong effects on cognitionOliver T Wolf
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Universitaetsstrasse 1, D 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
Neurobiol Aging 26:1029-33. 2005..The human brain might loose its responsiveness to gonadal steroids with aging or prolonged hormone depletion... - Cortisol and memory retrieval in women: influence of menstrual cycle and oral contraceptivesSabrina Kuhlmann
Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 183:65-71. 2005..The underlying neurobiological mechanisms of these behavioral findings remain to be elucidated... - The 'amygdala theory of autism' revisited: linking structure to behaviorIsabel Dziobek
Center for Brain Health, HN-400, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:1891-9. 2006..It may, however, be a mediator for narrow interest patterns and the imposition of routines and rituals. Our data, in conjunction with current literature, seem to argue for a modification of the 'amygdala theory of autism'... - Influence of the stress hormone cortisol on fear conditioning in humans: evidence for sex differences in the response of the prefrontal cortexRudolf Stark
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 32:1290-8. 2006..In sum, these findings demonstrate that in humans cortisol mostly influences prefrontal brain activation during fear conditioning and that these effects appear to be modulated by sex... - Endogenous estradiol and testosterone levels are associated with cognitive performance in older women and menOliver T Wolf
Institute of Experimental Psychology II, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Horm Behav 41:259-66. 2002..In contrast to the positive findings in women endogenous sex steroids do not appear to be closely linked to better cognition in older men...