Patterns of performance in amnesic subjects.
Patients with Korsakoff's syndrome, dementia, alcoholism, right and left temporal lobectomy, and normal subjects were compared on verbal learning and picture recognition memory tasks. Alcoholics and right lobectomy patients were similar on all measures, but the other groups had a characteristic pattern, particularly on hit and false positive rates in picture recognition.
D000328:Adult; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology; D011612:Psychosurgery; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000601:surgery; D014706:Verbal Learning