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Cigarette smoking and cognitive performance in healthy Swedish adults
Author(s)Robert D Hill, Lars-Goran Nilsson, Lars Nyberg
Journal titleAge and Ageing, vol 32, no 5, September 2003
Pagespp 548-550
KeywordsTobacco smoking ; Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Mental speed ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; Sweden.
AnnotationData on those individual participants in the Betula Prospective Cohort Study of Ageing, Memory and Health who were self-reported continuous smokers were contrasted to those who reported never smoking cigarettes. Current smokers were found to perform more poorly than never smokers on the more cognitively demanding tasks, namely, Block Design and free recall. The findings were interpreted in the light of the assumption that cigarette smoking may exert its greatest deleterious effect on those cognitive tasks that place the heaviest demands on processing resources. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-040108001 A
ClassmarkETT: DA: DF: DG: CC: 49: 76P

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