Cognitive and Emotional Impact of Caregiving: Exploring Stress and Attention in Mothers of Children with Developmental

The paper has shown that chronic stress and anxiety can have a detrimental effect on cognitive capacity. Attention is a crucial cognitive skill that is necessary in many situations, whether they are related to work or personal life. The brain networks that are responsible for alertness, executive function, and orientation are all vulnerable to the harmful effects of long-term exposure to stress. This study aims to examine the impact of persistent psychosocial stress in real-world situations on a number of attention networks. The group that was stressed had quicker response times than the group that was not stressed, no matter what the aim and cue combinations were. Each side dealt with every situation with the same level of accuracy. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in any of the three measures that were used to evaluate attention networks. In the group that was stressed, a large positive association was discovered between the alerting and orienting networks, while a significant negative correlation was found between the two networks.