Emerging research suggests that a relationship exists between the cognitive aspects of
anxiety (eg worry) and cognitive decline in older adults. The current study examined the …

Background Because anxiety is postulated as a risk factor for dementia, we performed a
systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate whether anxiety predicts cognitive …

Background. Data on the course of anxiety in late life are scarce. The present study sets out
to investigate the course of anxiety, as measured by the HADS-A (Zigmond & Snaith, 1983) …

Objective: The adverse effects of anxiety on cognition are widely recognized. According to
Attentional Control Theory, worry (ie facet of cognitive anxiety) is the component that is …

BackgroundAnxiety and depression are both important correlates of cognitive function.
However, longitudinal studies investigating how they covary with cognition within the same …

Although there is evidence of associations between anxiety, depression and cognitive
function in old age, there is little work investigating relations between those variables over …

Introduction Anxiety disorders are less well studied in elderly people than other disorders
such as depression. In particular the diagnosis of anxiety is more difficult in patients with …

Background: Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and concomitant atrophy of the
hippocampus may be extra vulnerable to the consequences of psychological distress …

Studies demonstrate that anxiety is a risk factor for cognitive decline. However, there are
also study findings regarding anxiety incidence among people with mild cognitive …

Objective To compare state and trait anxiety in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients and
matched control subjects, and to assess the impact of these variables in predicting …