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A further analysis of memory loss in dementia and depression in the elderly
Author(s) -
Gibson Andrew J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1981.tb00516.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dementia , depression (economics) , recall , memory disorder , free recall , developmental psychology , serial position effect , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognitive disorder , cognitive psychology , audiology , cognition , disease , medicine , cognitive impairment , economics , macroeconomics
Groups of normal, depressed and dementing elderly subjects were investigated for their ability to remember serially presented words and pictures in an immediate free recall design. Both the clinical groups showed memory loss, the demented being the more severe. A qualitative analysis of serial position curves suggests that whilst in depression there is probably a suppression of otherwise normal memory processes in dementia there is a more fundamental breakdown in the process itself.