Understanding noise stress-induced cognitive impairment in healthy adults and its implications for schizophrenia

Wright, B ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1256-5503, Peters, E, Ettinger, U, Kuipers, E and Kumari, V, 2014. Understanding noise stress-induced cognitive impairment in healthy adults and its implications for schizophrenia. Noise and Health, 16 (70), pp. 166-176. ISSN 1463-1741

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Abstract

Noise stress (NS) is detrimental to many aspects of human health and behavior. Understanding the effect of noise stressors on human cognitive function is a growing area of research and is crucial to helping clinical populations, such as those with schizophrenia, which are particularly sensitive to stressors. A review of electronic databases for studies assessing the effect of acute NS on cognitive functions in healthy adults revealed 31 relevant studies. The review revealed (1) NS exerts a clear negative effect on attention, working memory and episodic recall, and (2) personality characteristics, in particular neuroticism, and sleep influence the impact of noise stressors on performance in interaction with task complexity. Previous findings of consistent impairment in NS-relevant cognitive domains, heightened sensitivity to stressors, elevated neuroticism and sleep disturbances in schizophrenia, taken together with the findings of this review, highlight the need for empirical studies to elucidate whether NS, a common aspect of urban environments, exacerbates cognitive deficits and other symptoms in schizophrenia and related clinical populations.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Noise and Health
Creators:	Wright, B., Peters, E., Ettinger, U., Kuipers, E. and Kumari, V.
Publisher:	Medknow Publications and Media
Date:	2014
Volume:	16
Number:	70
ISSN:	1463-1741
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.4103/1463-1741.134917 DOI 134917 Publisher Item Identifier
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	01 Dec 2016 11:55
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2017 15:32
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29211

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