Stress-Associated Cognitive Impairments amongst Faculty of a Southern Nigeria University: Investigating the Effects of Perceived Stress on Cognition Scores
Abstract:BackgroundStress is of multi-factorial origin physiological, physical or psychological [1][2][3]] and triggers a central cascade according to Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome, which was criticised for using physical stressors [2]. John Mason set to correct this by deducing psychological stressors that potentially override physical stressors and highlighted cardinal features of a putative stressor as being novel, unpredictable, show feeling of lack of control over the situation and/or a threat to a soci… Show more
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