title: Word list learning in patients with polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) is a rare hereditary disease that is characterized by a combination of progressive presenile dementia and sclerosing leukoencephalopathy with bone cysts. No quantitative information on verbal memory functioning in PLOSL patients compared with control subjects is available.
  
  
  METHODS
  23 patients with PLOSL and 23 control subjects were examined with a version of the 10-word list-learning task. Learning curves were compared between the patients and the matched control subjects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with the control subjects, PLOSL patients with moderate or severe dementia were impaired in both learning trials and delayed recall on the 10-word list-learning test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Progressive degeneration of brain structures affecting the hippocampus and the medial temporal lobe with advanced PLOSL disease contributes to an inefficient verbal learning process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland and Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vanhanen
authors.forename: Panu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hakola
authors.forename: Tuula
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ilonen
authors.forename: Jari
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tiihonen
keywords: Dementia; Frontal lobe degeneration; Nasu-Hakola disease; Polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy