State anxiety predicts cognitive performance in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Results showed that state anxiety in PD significantly predicted performance across an array of cognitive domains, such as attention/working memory, executive functioning, memory, and language, whereas trait anxiety was a predictor only for executive functioning. In contrast, there was no significant relationship between state anxiety and visuospatial ability Conclusions: Overall, these findings highlight that performance in particular cognitive domains are associated with anxiety in PD. Thus, it may be critically important to consider and quantify the contribution of anxiety to cognitive performance when diagnosing and treating dementia and/or mild cognitive impairments in PD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).