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| Improvement of picture recall by repetition in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type | | Author(s) | Reinhard Heun, Martin Burkart, Otto Benkert |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 1, January 1997 |
| Pages | pp 85-92 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; In-patients ; Memory and Reminiscence. |
| Annotation | Evidence for positive effects of repetition on recall performance in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type is equivocal. This may be due to different repetition conditions used. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different repetition modes on the improvement of recall performance in demented subjects. 24 patients with Alzheimer type dementia and 24 control subjects with remitted depression were included in the study. Pictures were presented repeatedly using different presentation modes at a constant total presentation time. Free recall was tested repeatedly after different periods of delay (0-8 hours). Immediate and delayed list repetition significantly improved recall performance in both groups. Within-list repetition did not improve total recall in demented subjects. The repeated measurement design sensitivity detected minor changes in recall performance. These were not observed using other measures of recall and recognition (hits, false alarms, indices of signal discrimination). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807210 A |
| Classmark | EA: LF7: DB |
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