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Event based and time based prospective memory in Parkinson's disease
- Source :
- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 74:704-709
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2003.
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Abstract
- Background: Patients with Parkinson’s disease have been reported to have retrospective memory impairment, while prospective memory, which is memory for actions to be performed in the future, has not yet been investigated. Objective: To investigate the prospective memory of patients with Parkinson’s disease. Methods: Twenty Parkinson’s disease patients and 20 age matched normal controls were given event based and time based prospective memory tasks. In the event based prospective memory task, the subject was asked to perform an action whenever particular words were presented. In the time based prospective memory task, the subject was asked to perform an action at certain times. Results: The Parkinson’s disease patients were impaired on the event based prospective memory task but not on the time based prospective memory task. The impairment of the Parkinson’s disease patients on the event based prospective memory task was not the result of their forgetting the content of the prospective memory instructions, but the result of their failure to retrieve it spontaneously when the target words appeared. Conclusions: These results suggest that event based prospective memory is impaired in patients with Parkinson’s disease, presumably relating to frontal lobe dysfunction.
- Subjects :
- Male
Paper
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Parkinson's disease
Neuropsychological Tests
Severity of Illness Index
Life Change Events
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Retrospective memory
Surveys and Questionnaires
Prospective memory
medicine
Humans
Memory disorder
Psychiatry
Memory Disorders
Forgetting
Memoria
Cognitive disorder
Parkinson Disease
Cognition
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
humanities
Frontal Lobe
body regions
Psychiatry and Mental health
Female
Surgery
Neurology (clinical)
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00223050
- Volume :
- 74
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c06de0ce14f965169cb370375f441819