title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Saint Louis University.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Rankin
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Gilner
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Gfeller
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008609:Mental Status Schedule / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data