AGITATION, ANXIETY, BRAIN-DAMAGE AND PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR DEFICIT.

The article informs that during a series of studies devoted to clarifying the relative contributions of emotional and neurological factors to impaired performance in brain-damaged individuals, data were collected on, the effects of behavioral agitation during performance of a given task upon the quality of that performance, and the comparative effects of behavioral agitation, generalized anxiety and brain damage upon performance. This study compares performances on a perceptual-motor test by, a brains damaged group, essentially free from anxiety and agitation, two non-brain damaged psychiatric groups, one agitated and one non-agitated, and a control group.