Anxiety States and Sustained Attention in a Cognitively Intact Elderly Sample: Preliminary Results

Abstract

For elderly volunteers (10 high and 10 low on anxiety) scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, Mini-Mental State Examination, and subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale—Revised suggested anxiety adversely affected sustained attention of these elderly persons, but may not be evident on verbal and figural memory tasks.