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ArticleBrain sciences2023

Anxiety and Depressive Traits in the Healthy Population Does Not Affect Spatial Orientation and Navigation.

Isma Zafar, Ford Burles, Lila Berger, Michael McLaren-Gradinaru, Adam Leonidas David, Inderpreet Dhillon, Giuseppe Iaria

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Article in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Isma ZafarCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Ford BurlesCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4833-6318
Lila BergerCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Michael McLaren-GradinaruCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Adam Leonidas DavidCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Inderpreet DhillonCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
Giuseppe IariaCanadian Space Health Research Network, NeuroLab, Department of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5987-6491

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council RT735872
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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cognitioncognitive mapgetting lostorientationpath integration

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PMID38137086
PMCPMC10741661

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