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We examined whether walking under a naturalistic psychological threat, a fear\u2010of\u2010falling stressor, changes cortical oscillatory activity in older women, using mobile electroencephalography.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In this within\u2010subject study, 30 community\u2010dwelling women aged 65\u2009years or older underwent three\u2010dimensional gait analysis with concurrent 14\u2010channel electroencephalography (128\u2009Hz) during habitual walking and after introduction of a fictional disturbing factor, a psychological, nonmotor agent that elicits fear of falling without any mechanical perturbation. Relative band power and the theta\/beta ratio were compared with paired\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      tests and Cohen's dz., with sign\u2010flip permutation, false\u2010discovery\u2010rate correction and bootstrap confidence intervals; signal validity was confirmed by the eyes\u2010closed alpha increase, and head movement and gait speed served as controls.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Walking under threat reduced relative theta power across frontal, temporal, occipital and sensorimotor regions (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.004\u20130.014; dz. around \u22120.5; confidence intervals excluding zero), confirmed by permutation and by seven electrodes surviving correction, while the frontal and central theta\/beta ratio fell. The theta change was not accounted for by head movement, and in a smaller subgroup showed no detectable association with the change in gait speed, while gait became more cautious.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A naturalistic fear stressor produces a measurable cortical signature during walking, positioning fear of falling as a neurobehavioural stress response with implications for the health and mobility of older women.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/psyg.70219","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]],"date-time":"2026-10-09T00:07:52Z","timestamp":1791504472000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Cortical Stress Signature of Fear\u2010Induced Walking: Mobile Electroencephalography Theta Suppression in 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