Publication year: 2011 Source: European Psychiatry, Volume 26, Issue 6, September 2011, Pages 346-353 A.E. Castaneda, J. Suvisaari, M. Marttunen, J. Perälä, S.I. Saarni, … ObjectiveCognitive functioning in anxiety disorders has received little investigation, particularly among young adults and in non-clinical samples. The present study examined cognitive functioning in a population-based sample of young adults with anxiety disorders in comparison to healthy peers.MethodsA population-based sample of 21–35-year-olds with a lifetime history of anxiety disorders (n = 75) and a random sample of healthy controls (n = 71) derived from the same population were compared in terms of performance in neuropsychological tests measuring verbal and visual short-term memory, verbal long-term memory, attention, psychomotor processing speed, and executive functioning.ResultsIn general, young adults with anxiety disorders did not have major cognitive impairments when compared to healthy peers
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Cognitive functioning in a population-based sample of young adults with anxiety disorders