Associations between HPA categories and cognitive performance.

†All values are regression coefficients (beta's) indicating the mean change in cognitive performance, associated with an increase of 1 unit HPA value.Higher values indicate worse performance.Betas are corrected for age, gender, education and IQ.Speed = psychomotor speed; Process = speed of information processing; Attention = attentional switching; Verbal = verbal memory; Visual = visual memory; Exec/WM = executive functioning/working memory; Mean = mean z-score of all 6 cognitive domains; CAR = cortisol awakening response; evening = mean evening cortisol level; Diurnal = diurnal slope; DST = cortisol suppression on the dexamethasone suppression test; 95%CI = 95% confidence interval.