title: Meaningful Memory in Acute Anorexia Nervosa Patients-Comparing Recall, Learning, and Recognition of Semantically Related and Semantically Unrelated Word Stimuli.
abstract: It is unclear whether observed memory impairment in anorexia nervosa (AN) depends on the semantic structure (categorized words) of material to be encoded. We aimed to investigate the processing of semantically related information in AN.
  
  
  
  Memory performance was assessed in a recall, learning, and recognition test in 27 adult women with AN (19 restricting, 8 binge-eating/purging subtype; average disease duration: 9.32 years) and 30 healthy controls using an extended version of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, applying semantically related and unrelated word stimuli.
  
  
  
  Short-term memory (immediate recall, learning), regardless of semantics of the words, was significantly worse in AN patients, whereas long-term memory (delayed recall, recognition) did not differ between AN patients and controls.
  
  
  
  Semantics of stimuli do not have a better effect on memory recall in AN compared to CO. Impaired short-term versus long-term memory is discussed in relation to dysfunctional working memory in AN. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Valentin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Terhoeven
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.|Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kallen
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ingenerf
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Steffen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aschenbrenner
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.|Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, SRH Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weisbrod
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Herzog
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brockmeyer
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.|Clinical Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Christoph
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Friederich
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nikendei
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology
keywords: central coherence; eating disorder; meaningful content; neuropsychological; semantic memory