Slavich, G. M., Way, B. M., Eisenberger, N. I., &Taylor, S. E. (2010). Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress.
Although stress-induced increases in inflammation have been implicated in several major disorders, including cardiovascular disease and depression, the neurocognitive pathways that underlie inflammatory responses to stress remain largely unknown. To examine these processes, we recruited 124 healthy young adult participants to complete a laboratory-based social stressor while markers of inflammatory activity were obtained from oral fluids. A subset of participants (n = 31) later completed ...