Men and women differ in their vulnerability to a variety of stress-related illnesses, but the
underlying neurobiological mechanisms are not well understood. This is likely due to a …

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common syndrome associated with high morbidity and
mortality, despite progress in medical care. Many studies have shown that there are sex …

Public speaking tasks have been widely used as laboratory stressors in human research.
Fewer studies have investigated similar real life situations like oral examinations and results …

It is well documented that acute stress activates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and
the Hypothalamus–Pituitary–Adrenal (HPA) axis. Results regarding the hypothalamus …

Holding oral presentations in a university course is perceived as stressful and can increase
stress hormone concentrations and state anxiety. In such a naturalistic setting, further …

Women and men differ in their physiological and psychological stress response but only a
few studies have analyzed this sex difference in a naturalistic setting and focused on …

The aims of this study were to identify the perceived sources of stress in final‐year dental
students studying in a private dental school in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, using a modified dental …

In this report, salivary cortisol, alpha-amylase activity, and testosterone were measured to
assess stress associated with a public oral presentation in Veterinary Clinical Pathology …

Laboratory experiments revealed the stress hormone cortisol to decrease memory retrieval
of emotional material, but a translation to real-life settings is missing so far. In this study, 51 …

Mental stress is thought to underlie cardiovascular events, but there is information on
oxidative stress induced by mental stress in association with cardiovascular responses in …