Memory bias in panic disorder.
We investigated selective memory effects in patients with panic disorder. Thirty patients with panic disorder and 20 normal controls learned panic-related, strongly pleasant, and strongly unpleasant words. During the incidental learning task, Ss imagined scenes combining the referent of a presented word with themselves. After a distractor task, Ss took a free-recall test. Panic Ss showed enhanced memory for panic-related words but not for positive or negative words.
Department of Clinical Psychology, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning