Publications by authors named "Aline Talita dos Santos"
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- The study examines how acute psychosocial stress affects memory performance in healthy older adults, focusing on the roles of age, sex, and neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses.
- Researchers measured cortisol levels and cardiovascular responses using blood pressure and heart rate while assessing memory before and after a stress test.
- Results indicated that increased cortisol correlated with poorer memory recall, suggesting that stress impacts memory performance differently based on age and sex, which may influence the risk of cognitive disorders in older individuals.
The current study analyzed the relationship between perceived stress, depressive symptoms and self-esteem in elderly with and without subjective memory complain. Two-hundred four elderly were included (104 without and 100 with subjective memory complain) assesse using the Memory Assessment Complain Questionnaire (MAC-Q). The study protocol was composed by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Self-Esteem Scale of Rosenberg (SES).
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