Citation

Smith AP, Tyrrell DA, Al-Nakib W, Barrow PG, Higgins PG, Leekam S, Trickett S. Neuropsychobiology 1989; 21(2): 90-93.

Affiliation

Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Karger Publishers)

DOI

118558

PMID

2559360

Abstract

Volunteers who develop a cold following virus challenge were significantly slower on choice reaction time tasks than those with no illness. This effect was still observed after the clinical symptoms had gone. In contrast to this, influenza illnesses only impaired performance in tasks in which subjects were uncertain where the target stimulus would appear. These results demonstrate that the CNS effects of respiratory virus infections depend on the type of virus, and that performance impairments may remain even after the symptoms of a cold have gone.

Language: en