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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2013 Aug 28;47(11):1776–1784. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.07.027

Table 1.

Mean and standard deviation salivary cortisol, cortisol normalized to diurnal area under curve (AUC), testosterone, testosterone/cortisol (T/C) ratio and Pearson correlation of cortisol and testosterone levels at Sessions 1 and 2.

Session Morning Evening p
Cortisol (μg/dL)
S1 (Conditioning, Extinction) .508 (.260) .122 (.072) <.0001
S2 (Recall, Renewal) .410 (.294) ,076 (.068) <.0001
Cortisol/AUC
S1 .260 (.166) .055(.033) <.0001
S2 .197(.162) .039 (.060) <.0001
Testosterone (pg/mL)
S1 141.28 (40.09) 109.21 (33.65) .0004
S2 152.92 (45.58) 89.19 (29.30) <.0001
T/C ratio (%, above units)
S1 333 (137) 1084 (538) <.0001
S2 452 (255) 1451 (673) <.0001
T/C correlation
S1 r=.57, p=.0001 r=.57, p=.0003
S2 r=.46, p=.002 r=.38, p=.029

S1 = Session 1, S2 =Session 2