Psychosocial stress influences cognitive abilities, such as long-term memory retrieval. However, less is known about the effects of stress on cognitive flexibility, which is mediated by different neurobiological circuits and could thus be regulated by different neuroendocrine pathways. In this study, we randomly assigned healthy adults to an acute stress induction or control condition and subse...

Previous research in the area of information systems (IS), stress, and behavior has emphasized either stress resulting from an inability to cope with information and communication technologies or the potential value of IS to reduce stress in certain situations. In this paper, we merge both approaches: we propose that there is a duality in the effect of IS on stress perceptions, particularly, th...

This report describes the Fifth Annual Graph Drawing Contest , held in conjunction with the 1998 Graph Drawing Symposium in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of the contest is to monitor and challenge the current state of the art in graph-drawing technology 4, 5, 6, 7].

Several investigations demonstrated that anxiety is the most common mental health disorder worldwide affected about one in 13 people. Anxiety disorders are more commonly reported in Western societies but it is also a main health problem in non-Western countries as stress and anxiety levels have drastically increased over the last two decades. Several wars in Middle Eastern countries in the last...