[Impairments of different kinds of memory in patients with ischemic stroke].
27 patients aged 47-64 years with left hemispheric ischemic stroke with similar cognitive and educational levels were examined. Pharmacotherapy of the stroke directed to improvement of both memory and thinking was taken into consideration. To evaluate both different kinds of memory and a degree of the cognitive functions' impairments in the patients with a local ischemic stroke in anterior, posterior and middle parts of the left hemisphere the following tests were used: evaluation of both the immediate memory of the digits and the short-term audio-verbal memory; short-term trials of the pathological action of interference; Benton test, Meily test; evaluation of the declarative, procedure, semantic, strategic, mediated, long-term kinds of memory. It is shown that remembering of the new information concerning verbal names, digits, was worse in mediobasal, frontal and temporal location of the stroke in the left hemisphere and depended on clinical manifestations of the disorders. The working semantic and strategic kinds of the memory were also damaged, while long-term memory (autobiographic, professional) was impaired in less degree.
Sorokina
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Karlov
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Selitskiĭ
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GV
D000368:Aged; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index