Sex hormones as correlates of oxidative stress in the adult brain.

Oxidative stress, an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and available antioxidant capacity, is implicated in multiple psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative conditions. Peripheral and preclinical studies suggest oxidative stress differs by biological sex and covaries with estrogens. However, limited knowledge exists on the effect of circulating sex hormones on oxidative stress in the brain in humans in vivo.

Age moderates the relationship between affective response inhibition and bipolar disorder in adults.

Background: Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) often have impairments in neurocognition, including affective processing and affective response inhibition. While studies suggest that cognitive control in general may decline with age in BD, less is known about age-related changes in response inhibition to emotionally salient information.

Methods: 258 participants with BD and 54 healthy controls, ages 18-70, completed the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) Affective Go/No-Go task to assess affective response inhibition to positive and negative valenced stimuli.

The time course of processing emotion-laden words during sentence reading: Evidence from eye movements.

While recent research has explored the effect that positive and negative emotion words (e.g., happy or sad) have on the eye-movement record during reading, the current study examined the effect of positive and negative emotion-laden words (e.

The processing of blend words in naming and sentence reading.

Research exploring the processing of morphologically complex words, such as compound words, has found that they are decomposed into their constituent parts during processing. Although much is known about the processing of compound words, very little is known about the processing of lexicalised blend words, which are created from parts of two words, often with phoneme overlap (e.g.