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From: The impact of acute stress on hormones and cytokines and how their recovery is affected by music-evoked positive mood

Figure 3

Serum levels of cortisol, separately for music group and control group (a) and for participants in whom mood increased vs. decreased over the course of the experiment (b) (as indexed by the difference between pre- and post-values of the mood questionnaire). Mean serum levels are indicated by the circles, separately for each of the six time points (error bars represent SEM). Dotted lines are spline interpolations of mean values, thus approximating the time course of parameter levels between the measured time points.

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