scholarly journals The Cognitive Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Members of the General Population in Italy: A Preliminary Study on Executive Inhibition

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Francesca Favieri ◽  
Giuseppe Forte ◽  
Francesca Agostini ◽  
Jasmine Giovannoli ◽  
Enrico Di Pace ◽  
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The pandemic period which has characterized the last two years has been associated with increasingly worsening psychological conditions, and previous studies have reported severe levels of anxiety, mood disorder, and psychopathological alteration in the general population. In particular, worldwide populations have appeared to present post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Surprisingly, no studies have evaluated the effect of COVID-related PTSS on cognitive functioning. This study focused on the association between high levels of PTSS related to COVID-19 and alterations in executive functioning by considering executive inhibitions in populations not infected by the virus. Ninety respondents from the Italian population participated in the study. A higher percentage of PTSS was reported. Moreover, respondents with high post-traumatic symptomatology presented deficits in the inhibition of preponderant responses, demonstrating an executive deficit which could be expressed by a difficulty in controlling goal-directed actions. This was underlined by worse performances in elaborating incongruent stimuli in the Stroop task and no-go stimuli in the Go/No-Go task. This report presents preliminary findings underlining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cognitive functions. The results confirmed a persistently higher post-traumatic symptomatology related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Italian population and highlighted an association with cognitive inhibition impairment.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 491-495
Author(s):  
Tejas N. Wanjari ◽  
Gaurav Sawarkar

At present, COVOID-19 has created such a worse pandemic situation worldwide. The virus is responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). During quarantine, outside, there is the danger of getting physically sick due to infection (spreads with social contact) and inside due to mental and psychological stiffness. Once found proof of a range of psychological conditions during previous epidemics such as SARS, from post-traumatic stress symptoms to confusion, anger, depression, stress, insomnia, and emotional exhaustion. It is essential to look over schedule during this lockdown. From the sleeping time, exercise, diet, remain physically and mentally calm and relaxed. An estimated 2.6 billion people – one-third of the world's population – are living under some lockdown or quarantine. This is arguably the most massive psychological experiment ever conducted. There was no option to combat the COVID-19 crisis. Lockdown helps to break the chain of virus scattering in society and to minimize the disease rate as well as control the mortality rate. People didn’t seem aware of how to face or schedule the lockdown period, and that creates a panic situation in the society. Thus, it is necessary to plan out the lockdown schedule to overcome physical as well as mental illness.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 731-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorys Castelli ◽  
Marialaura Di Tella ◽  
Agata Benfante ◽  
Annunziata Romeo

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gascon ◽  
J. P. Pereira ◽  
M. J. Cunha ◽  
M. A. Santed ◽  
B. Martinez-Jarreta

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