Selective reminding procedure in depression and dementia

Patients with mild dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), patients with major depression, and normal elderly control subjects were administered a verbal learning task using the selective reminding procedure. Depressed patients were impaired on total recall and the proportion of items retained...

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Published inPsychology and aging Vol. 2; no. 2; p. 111
Main Authors Hart, R P, Kwentus, J A, Hamer, R M, Taylor, J R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.1987
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Aged
Alzheimer Disease - psychology
Attention
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Humans
Imagination
Male
Memory
Memory, Short-Term
Mental Recall
Retention (Psychology)
Serial Learning
Verbal Learning
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Summary:Patients with mild dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), patients with major depression, and normal elderly control subjects were administered a verbal learning task using the selective reminding procedure. Depressed patients were impaired on total recall and the proportion of items retained from one trial to the next without reminding and did not benefit from imagery in retaining items over consecutive trials. The DAT patients were impaired on all measures derived from the test, including storage and recognition memory. With the exception of the ability to benefit from imagery, all of the measures distinguished depressed and mild DAT patients. These findings are consistent with deficient encoding in DAT and performance deficits as a function of effortful cognitive processing in depression.
ISSN:0882-7974
1939-1498
DOI:10.1037/0882-7974.2.2.111