Wolff Schlotz

Covariance between psychological and endocrine responses to pharmacological challenge and psychosocial stress: a question of timing (2008)

Schlotz, Wolff, Kumsta, Robert, Layes, Irmgard, Entringer, Sonja, Jones, Alexander, Wüst, Stefan

Objective: To test if the covariance of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and subjective-psychological responses to stress is dependent on different dynamics of these systems. Although stress...

Oily fish intake during pregnancy: association with lower hyperactivity but not with higher full-scale IQ in offspring (2008)

Gale, Catharine R., Robinson, Sian M., Godfrey, Keith M., Law, Catherine M., Schlotz, Wolff, O'Callaghan, F.J.

Background: Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are thought to be important for fetal neurodevelopment. Animal studies suggest that a deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids may lead to...

Distress and affective dysregulation in patients with borderline personality disorder: a psychophysiological ambulatory monitoring study (2008)

Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich W., Kuo, Janice, Schlotz, Wolff, Kleindienst, Nikolaus, Rosenthal, M. Zachary, Detterer, Leonie, ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by enduring psychological distress and affective dysregulation. Several models have linked both phenomena, but are lacking empirical support. To...

Associations of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) with cortical activation asymmetry during the course of an exam stress period (2008)

Hewig, Johannes, Schlotz, Wolff, Gerhards, Friedemann, Breitenstein, Caterina, Lürken, Alexander, Naumann, Ewald

The cortisol awakening response (CAR) is a cortisol rise which is distinct from the circadian rise in hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity before awakening. The CAR has been shown to be...

Size at birth and motor activity during stress in children aged 7-9 years (2007)

Schlotz, Wolff, Jones, Alexander, Phillips, Naomi M.M., Godfrey, Keith M., Phillips, David I.W.

Objective: Small size at birth is linked with metabolic and cardiovascular disease. There is increasing evidence that it is also linked with physiological stress responses and abnormal behaviour, in...

Is the cortisol awakening rise a response to awakening? (2007)

Wilhelm, Ines, Born, Jan, Kudielka, Brigitte M., Schlotz, Wolff, Wust, Stefan

A distinct rise in cortisol levels that occurs after morning awakening is increasingly used as an indicator of adrenocortical activity which is associated with different pathologies. Although it was...

Determinants of the diurnal course of salivary alpha-amylase (2007)

Nater, Urs M., Rohleder, Nicholas, Schlotz, Wolff, Ehlert, Ulrike, Kirschbaum, Clemens

Objective: Previous data from our group and others have shown that salivary alpha-amylase activity increases in response to stress. It has been suggested that salivary alpha-amylase may be a marker...

Specific associations of insulin resistance with impaired health-related quality of life in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (2007)

Schlotz, Wolff, Ambery, Phil, Syddall, Holly E., Crozier, Sarah R., Aihie Sayer, Avan, Cooper, Cyrus, ...

Insulin resistance is a metabolic abnormality that underlies Type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, but it may also be associated with more global health deficits. This...

Specific associations of insulin resistance with impaired health-related quality of life in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (2007)

Schlotz, Wolff, Ambery, Phil, Syddall, Holly E., Crozier, Sarah R., Sayer, Avan Aihie, Cooper, Cyrus, ...

Insulin resistance is a metabolic abnormality that underlies Type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, but it may also be associated with more global health deficits. This...

Size at birth and motor activity during stress in children aged 7 to 9 years (2007)

Schlotz, Wolff, Jones, Alexander, Phillips, Naomi M.M., Godfrey, Keith M., Phillips, David I.W.

OBJECTIVES: Small size at birth is linked with metabolic and cardiovascular disease. There is increasing evidence that it is also linked with physiologic stress responses and abnormal behavior, in...

Parity does not alter baseline or stimulated activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in women (2006)

Federenko, Ilona S., Wolf, Jutta M., Wust, Stefan, Schlotz, Wolff, Hellhammer, Juliane, Kudielka, Brigitte M., ...

Pregnancy is associated with considerable physiological adaptations, some of which long outlast the state of pregnancy. Although it is well documented that pregnancy produces alterations of the...

The heritability of perceived stress (2006)

Federenko, Ilona S., Schlotz, Wolff, Kirschbaum, Clemens, Bartels, Meike, Hellhammer, Dirk H., Wüst, Stefan

Background. Exploration of the degree to which perceived chronic stress is heritable is important as these self-reports have been linked to stress-related health outcomes. The aims of this study were...

Stressreaktivität: theoretisches konzept und messung [Stress reactivity: theoretical concept and measurement] (2005)

Schulz, Peter, Jansen, Lars J., Schlotz, Wolff

The construct of stress reactivity refers to the disposition of a person to answer stressors with immediate, intense, and long lasting stress reactions. Stress reactivity is assumed to be determined...

Percieved work overload and chronic worrying predict weekend-weekday differences in the cortisol awakening response (2004)

Schlotz, Wolff, Hellhammer, Juliane, Schulz, Peter, Stone, Arthur A.

OBJECTIVE: The cortisol increase after awakening has been shown to be associated with work-related stress. Several studies demonstrated a moderate stability of cortisol awakening responses on...

Zur Bestimmung von Alterseffekten bei der subjektiven Beurteilung des Schlafes [Controlling for confounding factors in studies of age-effects on self-reported sleep parameters] (2003)

Schulz, Peter, Schlotz, Wolff, Hellhammer, Juliane

Self-report data on sleep in elderly persons are influenced by age-dependent, age-associated, and age-independent factors. This study seeks to test the effects of the age-independent factors chronic...

Geschlechtsunterschiede bei stressbezogenen Variablen: Der Einfluss der Neigung zur Besorgnis [Gender differences in stress-related variables: the influence of worry-disposition] (2002)

Schulz, Peter, Schlotz, Wolff, Wolf, Jutta, Wüst, Stefan

Although on average women report more distress, stress and bodily complaints than men, their higher life-expectancy objectively points to better health. The interindividually varying...