Examining brain structures associated with perceived stress in a large sample of young adults via voxel-based morphometry

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 92; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Li, Haijiang, Li, Wenfu, Wei, Dongtao, Chen, Qunlin, Jackson, Todd, Zhang, Qinglin, Qiu, Jiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 15.05.2014; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - pathology; Corpus callosum; Depression - complications; Depression - pathology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gray matter; Gray Matter - pathology; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Middle Aged; Nerve Net - pathology; Neurosciences; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Perceived stress; Reproducibility of Results; Sample Size; Self Concept; Sensitivity and Specificity; Stress; Stress response; Stress, Psychological - complications; Stress, Psychological - pathology; Studies; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Voxel-based morphometry; White matter; White Matter - pathology; Young Adult; Perceived stress; Gray matter; White matter; Corpus callosum; Voxel-based morphometry; Central nervous system; Morphometry; Stress; Encephalon

Perceived stress reflects the extent to which situations are appraised as stressful at a given point in one's life. Past brain imaging studies have examined activation patterns underlying the stress response, yet focal differences in brain structures related to perceived stress are not well und...