Stress, Cortisol and the Modulation of Multiple Memory Systems

Stress is a common experience for most of us. The effects ofstress are manifold - stress plays an important role in health anddisease, in emotion regulation and cognitive functioning. This bookfocusses on the influence of stress on the use of multiple memorysystems. Lars Schwabe gives a concise overview of the stressconcept and the stress biology. He portrays multiple anatomicallyand functionally distinct memory systems and develops step by stephis hypothesis that stress modulates multiple memory systems infavor of rather rigid habit memory and at the expense of flexiblecognitive memory. Two experimental studies are presented that aimedto test this hypothesis. This book is targeted at all who areinterested in stress and its effects on learning and memory, inparticular at students and researchers in the fields of psychology,medicine, biology and neuroscience.

Autorentext
Lars Schwabe studied psychology at the University ofGreifswald. After finishing his studies in 2005, he worked at theInstitute of Psychobiology in Trier and at the Leiden/AmsterdamCenter for Drug Research in Leiden. In 2008, Lars Schwabe receivedhis PhD at the University of Trier and joined shortly thereafterthe Department of Cognitive Psychology at the Ruhr-UniversityBochum.

Klappentext
Stress is a common experience for most of us. The effects of stress are manifold - stress plays an important role in health and disease, in emotion regulation and cognitive functioning. This book focusses on the influence of stress on the use of multiple memory systems. Lars Schwabe gives a concise overview of the stress concept and the stress biology. He portrays multiple anatomically and functionally distinct memory systems and develops step by step his hypothesis that stress modulates multiple memory systems in favor of rather rigid habit memory and at the expense of flexible cognitive memory. Two experimental studies are presented that aimed to test this hypothesis. This book is targeted at all who are interested in stress and its effects on learning and memory, in particular at students and researchers in the fields of psychology, medicine, biology and neuroscience.