hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Jin Yan just presented cool preliminary fMRI findings of our new Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task #escan2026. Tomorrow Liwen Meng presents how exposure to virtual nature alters stress responses to this task Check out Poster 2-111 120
hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/20264/ A key finding: As stress levels rose, so did total peripheral resistance—a marker of vascular constriction associated with threat appraisal, maladaptive coping and cardiovascular disease risk. We think stress research should incorporate this measure more frequently! 120
hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/20263/ The LSST effectively generates gradual increases in self-reported stress, negative affect, heart rate, cardiac contractility, and blood pressure, while simultaneously reducing positive affect and perceived competence. 130
hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/20262/ Most acute stress tasks compare stress vs. control. The LSST instead ramps up stress across four 10-minute blocks by combining increasing task difficulty, time pressure, negative feedback, and social-evaluative threat. 130
hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Those moments when you’re waiting for your cluster jobs to finish, get bored, and ask ChatGPT to write a progress-monitoring script. A little manual fine-tuning later, and voilà! 010
