Characterization of stress reactions to the Stroop Color Word Test

Tulen, Joke H.M.; Moleman, P.; Steenis, H.G. van; Boomsma, Frans

doi:10.1016/0091-3057(89)90204-9

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“…Previous studies have shown an effect of mental demands on the trapezius muscle (11,12,16) and the wrist extensor muscles (11,17) but not on the wrist flexor muscles (11). Our study showed a similar effect of mental demands on all the muscles in the forearm, shoulder, and neck.…”

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Effect of mental and physical demands on muscular activity during the use of a computer mouse and a keyboard

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Jensen²,

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et al. 2002

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Effect of mental and physical demands on muscular activity during the use of a computer mouse and a keyboard

Laursen

Jensen²,

Garde³

et al. 2002

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…These phenomena became known as Stroops interference and congruence effects, respectively. Therefore, the SCWT produces a cognitive conflict that may induce anxiety (43,44).…”

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Pharmacology of human experimental anxiety

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Del-Ben

et al. 2003

Braz J Med Biol Res

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This review covers the effect of drugs affecting anxiety using four psychological procedures for inducing experimental anxiety applied to healthy volunteers and patients with anxiety disorders. The first is aversive conditioning of the skin conductance responses to tones. The second is simulated public speaking, which consists of speaking in front of a video camera, with anxiety being measured with psychometric scales. The third is the Stroop Color-Word test, in which words naming colors are painted in the same or in a different shade, the incongruence generating a cognitive conflict. The last test is a human version of a thoroughly studied animal model of anxiety, fear-potentiated startle, in which the eye-blink reflex to a loud noise is recorded. The evidence reviewed led to the conclusion that the aversive conditioning and potentiated startle tests are based on classical conditioning of anticipatory anxiety. Their sensitivity to benzodiazepine anxiolytics suggests that these models generate an emotional state related to generalized anxiety disorder. On the other hand, the increase in anxiety determined by simulated public speaking is resistant to benzodiazepines and sensitive to drugs affecting serotonergic neurotransmission. This pharmacological profile, together with epidemiological evidence indicating its widespread prevalence, suggests that the emotional state generated by public speaking represents a species-specific response that may be related to social phobia and panic disorder.

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“…The usefulness of the Stroop Color Word Test (CWT) as a stress-inducing performance task has been shown previously (Frankenhaeuser and Johansson 1976;Hjemdahl et al 1984;Tulen et al 1989). The CWT induces sympathetic adrenal-medullary activation as shown by increased cardiovascular activity and catecholamine secretion, in addition to psychic distress (Tulen et al 1989).…”

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Dose-dependent effects of intravenous lorazepam on cardiovascular activity, plasma catecholamines and psychological function during rest and mental stress

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Abstract. Dose-dependent effects of intravenously administered lorazepam on psychophysiological activity during rest and mental stress were studied in order to examine differential responses to doses which may induce anxiolysis or sedation. In a double-blind randomized cross-over study, nine male volunteers participated in a placebo and a lorazepam session, during which the subjects repeatedly performed a 10-min version of the Stroop Color Word Test (CWT), with t0 min of rest between the CWTs. Lorazepam was administered before each rest period in increasing doses of 0.0, 0.06, 0.13, 0.25 and 0.5 mg (total cumulative dose: 0.94 mg). Heart rate showed a dose-dependent decrease during rest with an ED50 of 0.13mg lorazepam, while lorazepam had no effect on the cardiovascular and plasma catecholamine response magnitudes to the CWT. Subjective thtigue and reaction time increased significantly after 0.94 mg lorazepam, while at the same dose vigor decreased; state anxiety after the CWT was not influenced by lorazepam. These data show differential effects of lorazepam on cardiovascular, biochemical and psychological function. While heart rate was suppressed at low doses during rest and reaction time and subjective fatigue increased at doses which induced sedation, state anxiety and physiological response patterns to the CWT were not influenced by lorazepam.

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Characterization of stress reactions to the Stroop Color Word Test

Cited by 157 publications

References 20 publications

Effect of mental and physical demands on muscular activity during the use of a computer mouse and a keyboard

Effect of mental and physical demands on muscular activity during the use of a computer mouse and a keyboard

Pharmacology of human experimental anxiety

Dose-dependent effects of intravenous lorazepam on cardiovascular activity, plasma catecholamines and psychological function during rest and mental stress

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