title: Effects of subcortical vascular ischemic dementia and aging on negative and neutral word list learning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Subcortical ischemic vascular dementia (SIVD) represents an important subgroup of vascular dementia. Besides characteristic cognitive deficits, particular emotional problems support the diagnosis. Emotional disturbances in SIVD are not well understood.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied the performance of SIVD patients, healthy young control persons and old control persons in an emotional word list learning task.
  
  
  RESULTS
  SIVD patients showed lower memory performance than both control groups for neutral as well as for negative words. However, we found a significant emotional memory advantage for negative words in all 3 diagnostic groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SIVD patients are able to profit from emotional information in order to enhance their memory performance.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10F, Giessen, Germany. jutta.billino@psychol.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: Jutta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Billino
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luerssen
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: von Renteln-Kruse
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mühlhan
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rösler
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult