Recency-primacy recognition in Parkinson's disease.
Early parkinsonian patients and matched controls were tested with a newly designed, short recency-primacy recognition task. Parkinsonian patients showed a significant impairment of recency recognition which could neither be explained by deficits in intelligence, attention, and content memory nor by depression.
Fischer
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P
Neurological Institute, University of Vienna, Austria.
Kendler
P
P
Goldenberg
G
G
D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010302:Parkinson Disease, Secondary / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D013998:Time Perception