β-Adrenergic Contributions to Emotion and Physiology During an Acute Psychosocial Stressor

Conclusions These results provide updated experimental evidence that β-adrenergic blockade attenuates negative, high arousal emotions in response to a psychosocial stressor while also blunting sympathetic nervous system reactivity. Together, these findings shed light on the neurophysiological mechanisms by which stressors transform into the subjective experience we call “stress.” Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02972554.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research