Perceived Occupational Stress is associated with Decreased Cortical Activity of the Prefrontal Cortex: A Multichannel Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study

• DOI: 10.1038/srep39089
• Publication Date: 2016-12-13T10:21:44Z
• Authors: Po-Han Chou; Wei-Hao Lin; Chao-An Hung; Chiung-Chih Chang; Wan-Rung Li; Tsuo-Hung Lan; Min-Wei Huang
• Keywords: Occupational Stress; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Verbal fluency test

Abstract Despite an increasing number of reports on the associations between chronic occupational stress and structural functional changes brain, underlying neural correlates perceived is still not clear. Perceived reflects extents to which situations are appraised as stressful at a given point in one’s life. Using near-infrared spectroscopy, we investigated cortical activity over bilateral frontotemporal regions during verbal fluency test. Sixty-eight participants (17 men, 51 women), 20–62 years age were recruited. was measured using Chinese version Job Content Questionnaire, Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. We found statistically significant negative burnout brain fronto-polar dorsolateral prefrontal cortex VFT (r = −0.343 −0.464). In conclusion, our research demonstrated possible basis that distributed across cortex.