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Performance on tests sensitive to frontal lobe lesions by patients with organic amnesia: Leng & Parkin revisited
Author(s) -
Shoqeirat Mohammed A.,
Mayes Andrew,
MacDonald Christopher,
Meudell Peter,
Pickering Alan
Publication year - 1990
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.2044-8260.1990.tb00903.x
Subject(s) - psychology , amnesia , audiology , wisconsin card sorting test , frontal lobe , neuropsychological test , developmental psychology , psychiatry , neuropsychology , cognition , medicine
Groups of amnesics with aetiologies that included chronic alcoholism, encephalitis and ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm (ACoAA) were examined on the Cognitive Estimation Test (CET), FAS Word Fluency Test (FAS) and the full and Nelson (1976) versions of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). The alcoholic amnesics were impaired on all four tests, whereas the post‐encephalitic amnesics were impaired on the FAS and CET but performed normally on both versions of the WCST. The ACoAA amnesics were impaired on both the FAS and the CET, and scored at a level in between the other amnesic subgroups on the WCST.