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Retrograde Amnesia after ECT. An Attempt to Demonstrate Reminder‐effects in Humans
Author(s) -
MORTENSEN ERIK LYKKE
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1980.tb00343.x
Subject(s) - amnesia , psychology , retrograde amnesia , recall , nonverbal communication , cued recall , cued speech , cognitive psychology , anterograde amnesia , audiology , developmental psychology , free recall , medicine
In a study of the retrograde amnesic effect of bilateral ECT, twelve patients were subjects in a repeated measures design. Both verbal and nonverbal materials were used and retention was tested with different methods: Yes‐no recognition, forced‐choice recognition and recall cued by initial letters. The absolute amount of retrograde amnesia was small; there seemed to be no difference between verbal and nonverbal materials, and cueing with initial letters was not found to be an effective method of reducing amnesia.