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Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder

Andreas Nelsona Department of Social and Psychological studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden;b Department of Anaesthesiology, Central Hospital of Karlstad, Karlstad, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Hanna Malmberg Gavelinc Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-9018View further author information
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Micael Anderssond Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;e Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-6365View further author information
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Maria Josefssonf Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;g Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, Umeå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-3581View further author information
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Therese Eskilssonh Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;i Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Umeå University, Umeå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2402-562XView further author information
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Lisbeth Slunga Järvholmh Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8080-146XView further author information
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Anna Stigsdotter Neelya Department of Social and Psychological studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden;j Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts; Department of Health, Education and Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3450-8067View further author information
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Carl-Johan Boraxbekkd Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;k Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark;l Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;m Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;n Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC) and Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, DenmarkORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4458-6475View further author information
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Article: 2188092 | Received 12 Oct 2022, Accepted 02 Mar 2023, Published online: 20 Mar 2023

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