Stress and Psychosocial Distress Scale with Blunted Oscillatory Dynamics Serving Abstract Reasoning

Figure 5

Greater psychosocial distress and perceived stress are inversely correlated with alpha/beta oscillations in the right superior temporal sulcus. (a) Extracted pseudo- values from the peak voxel in the right superior temporal sulcus (image in middle) illustrate the significant relationship between higher psychosocial distress (-axis) and weaker oscillatory alpha/beta responses (pseudo-, -axis) serving abstract reasoning (, ). (b) Greater perceived stress was also associated with weaker alpha/beta oscillations (i.e., less negative) in the right superior temporal sulcus (-axis; , ). The gray shaded area depicts the standard error of the mean.