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Anxiety and Depressive Traits in the Healthy Population Does Not Affect Spatial Orientation and Navigation
| العنوان: | Anxiety and Depressive Traits in the Healthy Population Does Not Affect Spatial Orientation and Navigation |
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| المؤلفون: | Isma Zafar, Ford Burles, Lila Berger, Michael McLaren-Gradinaru, Adam Leonidas David, Inderpreet Dhillon, Giuseppe Iaria |
| المصدر: | Brain Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 12, p 1638 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | cognition, cognitive map, getting lost, orientation, path integration, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571 |
| الوصف: | The ability to navigate and orient in spatial surroundings is critical for effective daily functioning. Such ability is perturbed in clinically diagnosed mood and anxiety disorders, with patients exhibiting poor navigational skills. Here, we investigated the effects of depression and anxiety traits (not the clinical manifestation of the disorders) on the healthy population and hypothesized that greater levels of depression and anxiety traits would manifest in poorer spatial orientation skills and, in particular, with a poor ability to form mental representations of the environment, i.e., cognitive maps. We asked 1237 participants to perform a battery of spatial orientation tasks and complete two questionnaires assessing their anxiety and depression traits. Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not find any correlation between participants’ anxiety and depression traits and their ability to form cognitive maps. These findings may imply a significant difference between the clinical and non-clinical manifestations of anxiety and depression as affecting spatial orientation and navigational abilities. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2076-3425 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/12/1638; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3425; https://doaj.org/article/9a74400d5ec34af8947477ad0e45936f |
| DOI: | 10.3390/brainsci13121638 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13121638 https://doaj.org/article/9a74400d5ec34af8947477ad0e45936f |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.95361E5D |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20763425 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/brainsci13121638 |