Psychophysiological and Cortisol Responses to Psychological Stress in Depressed and Nondepressed Older Men and Women With Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk
C. Barr Taylor, MD,
Ansgar Conrad, Dipl-Psych,
Frank H. Wilhelm, PhD,
Eric Neri, BS,
Allyson DeLorenzo, MPH,
Marie A. Kramer, CAND-PSYCH,
Janine Giese-Davis, PhD,
Walton T. Roth, MD,
Roberta Oka, RN, PhD,
John P. Cooke, MD, PhD,
Helena Kraemer, PhD and
David Spiegel, MD
From the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California (C.B.T., A.C., E.N., A.D., J.G.-D., W.T.R., R.O., J.C., H.K., D.S.); the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California (A.C., W.T.R.); the Institute for Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland (F.H.W.); and the Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (M.A.K.).

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Figure 1. RSATF (mean + standard error) in depressed and nondepressed males and females during the Trier Social Stress Task.
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Figure 2. Cortisol (mean + standard error) in depressed and nondepressed males and females during the Trier Social Stress Task.
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