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| Mental health and cognitive function in adults aged 18 to 92 years | | Author(s) | David Bunce, Maya Tzur, Anusha Ramchurn |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 2, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp P67-P74 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Living in the community ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | In research partly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the authors investigated mental health and cognitive function in 195 community-dwelling adults aged 18 to 92 (mean age 46.64). Several cognitive domains were assessed, including psychomotor, executive function and episodic memory. A significant Age x Mental Health interaction was found in relation to within-person (WP) variability (trial-to-trial variability in reaction time performance) to a 4-choice psychomotor task and a Stroop test, but not in relation to mean reaction time measures from those tasks. Poorer mental health was associated with greater WP variability to older adults; this effect was not found in relation to memory. The findings suggest that WP variability may be sensitive to relatively subtle effects associated with age and poor mental health, and that they provide a valuable insight into cognitive function in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080729201 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: ENR: ENP: K4: 3KB |
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