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Performance of long‐stay schizophrenics after drug withdrawal on matched immediate and delayed recall tasks
Author(s) -
Calev Avraham,
Nigal Doron,
Kugelmass Sol,
Weller Malcolm P. I.,
Lerer Bernard
Publication year - 1991
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.2044-8260.1991.tb00942.x
Subject(s) - forgetting , psychology , recall , anticholinergic , cognition , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , drug withdrawal , drug , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , audiology , anesthesia , medicine , cognitive psychology
Both anticholinergic and neuroleptic drugs were withdrawn from eight long‐stay hospitalized chronic schizophrenics. These patients and normal controls were then tested on Calev, Venables & Monk's (1983) immediate and delayed matched recall tasks to evaluate their rate of forgetting of verbal well‐encoded materials. The results showed rapid forgetting in schizophrenics. This finding suggests that a post‐encoding deficit characterizes long‐stay schizophrenics after drug withdrawal. Cognitive and brain pathologies that may explain these results are discussed.