Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children

Brand S, Mikoteit T, Kalak N, Sadeghi Bahmani D, Lemola S, Gerber M, Ludyga S, Bossard M, Pühse U, Holsboer-Trachsler E, Hatzinger M (2018)
Frontiers in Psychology 9.

Zeitschriftenaufsatz | Veröffentlicht | Englisch
 
Download
Es wurden keine Dateien hochgeladen. Nur Publikationsnachweis!
Autor*in
Brand, Serge; Mikoteit, Thorsten; Kalak, Nadeem; Sadeghi Bahmani, Dena; Lemola, SakariUniBi ; Gerber, Markus; Ludyga, Sebastian; Bossard, Madleina; Pühse, Uwe; Holsboer-Trachsler, Edith; Hatzinger, Martin
Abstract / Bemerkung
Background: Learning is the relatively permanent change of behavior as a result of experience and tightly related to memory and cognition. Learning is particularly important for children. Further, restoring sleep is associated both with improved learning performance and lower cortisol levels as a proxy of the so-called hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity (HPA-AA). With the present study, we investigated, if and to what extent explicit learning performance was associated with cortisol levels at baseline and under challenge conditions and with objective sleep dimensions among 9-years old children. Methods: A total of 39 children (mean age = 9.5 years; 39% females) took part in the study. Verbal and figural working and long-term memory were tested before and after the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C). Further, children underwent sleep-EEG assessment, and cortisol awakening response (CAR) was assessed. Results: Higher cortisol levels were associated with lower explicit learning encoding (verbal, but not figural learning). Higher verbal and figural working and long-term memory performance predicted lower cortisol secretion under the TSST-C, along with higher verbal and figural working and long-term memory performance after the TSST-C. Cognitive test performances were not mediated by cortisol secretion under the TSST-C. Cognitive performance, cortisol secretion under challenge (TSST-C) and basal conditions (morning) and sleep patterns were unrelated. Conclusions: The pattern of results suggests that among a sample of 9-years old children cortisol secretion and stages of memory processes (encoding, storage, retrieval) are associated in a complex and bi-directional way. Further, it appears that cognitive-emotional processes underlying cognitive performance and its evaluation might impact on subsequent cortisol secretion as a proxy of neuroendocrinological response to cognitive-emotional processes. Last, cognitive performance and cortisol secretion under challenge conditions were not related to objective sleep patterns and baseline cortisol secretion.
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Zeitschriftentitel
Frontiers in Psychology
Band
9
eISSN
1664-1078
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2980152

Zitieren

Brand S, Mikoteit T, Kalak N, et al. Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology. 2018;9.
Brand, S., Mikoteit, T., Kalak, N., Sadeghi Bahmani, D., Lemola, S., Gerber, M., Ludyga, S., et al. (2018). Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02240
Brand, Serge, Mikoteit, Thorsten, Kalak, Nadeem, Sadeghi Bahmani, Dena, Lemola, Sakari, Gerber, Markus, Ludyga, Sebastian, et al. 2018. “Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children”. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Brand, S., Mikoteit, T., Kalak, N., Sadeghi Bahmani, D., Lemola, S., Gerber, M., Ludyga, S., Bossard, M., Pühse, U., Holsboer-Trachsler, E., et al. (2018). Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Brand, S., et al., 2018. Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
S. Brand, et al., “Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, 2018.
Brand, S., Mikoteit, T., Kalak, N., Sadeghi Bahmani, D., Lemola, S., Gerber, M., Ludyga, S., Bossard, M., Pühse, U., Holsboer-Trachsler, E., Hatzinger, M.: Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children. Frontiers in Psychology. 9, (2018).
Brand, Serge, Mikoteit, Thorsten, Kalak, Nadeem, Sadeghi Bahmani, Dena, Lemola, Sakari, Gerber, Markus, Ludyga, Sebastian, Bossard, Madleina, Pühse, Uwe, Holsboer-Trachsler, Edith, and Hatzinger, Martin. “Cortisol Impacted on Explicit Learning Encoding, but Not on Storage and Retrieval, and Was Not Associated With Sleep Patterns—Results From the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) Among 9-Years Old Children”. Frontiers in Psychology 9 (2018).

Link(s) zu Volltext(en)
Access Level
Restricted Closed Access

Export

Markieren/ Markierung löschen
Markierte Publikationen

Open Data PUB

Suchen in

Google Scholar