The effect of impaired verbal memory retrieval on autobiographical memory across different life periods in schizophrenia
| Autor: | Amalia Alexiadou, Mary H. Kosmidis, Eleni Parlapani, Grigoris Kiosseoglou, Konstantinos Fokas, Vasilis P. Bozikas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Adult
Male Adolescent lcsh:RC435-571 Memory Episodic behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Psychiatry Humans Semantic memory Verbal fluency test 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory Memory Disorders Recall Verbal Behavior Long-term memory Autobiographical memory 05 social sciences Age Factors Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Case-Control Studies Mental Recall Female Schizophrenic Psychology Childhood memory Verbal memory Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 80, Iss, Pp 81-88 (2018) |
| Popis: | Objectives Autobiographical memory (AM) involves recollection of personal events and facts about one's life. Αim of the present study was to investigate AM in schizophrenia patients, and, in particular, patients' ability to recall autobiographical memories after controlling for verbal memory and verbal fluency deficits. Method Participants included 40 schizophrenia patients (23 male) and 40 healthy controls (23 male), matched for age, gender, educational level, and premorbid intellectual functioning. Participants' verbal memory (list learning and story recall) and verbal fluency were assessed. AM was evaluated by the Questionnaire of Autobiographical Memory, consisting of the Personal Semantic Memory scale and the Autobiographical Incidents scale. Furthermore, personal incidents' specificity was examined. Results Schizophrenia patients showed deficits in verbal memory and verbal fluency, as well as in both semantic and episodic AM compared with healthy controls. Deficits were shown in episodic and semantic memories of events and facts dating to three different life periods (childhood, early adulthood and recent life). Regarding specificity of recalled events, patients reported fewer specific autobiographical incidents than controls. After controlling AM deficits for patients' verbal memory and verbal fluency impairment, it was shown that schizophrenia patients recalled fewer memories of autobiographical incidents dating only to recent life, compared with healthy controls. Conclusions Schizophrenia patients showed impaired AM after controlling for verbal memory and verbal fluency impairment only in regard with personal episodic memories from recent life. Current findings raise the important issue of cognitive remediation therapy in schizophrenia. |
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