Artigo
Recognition memory for emotional pictures in Alzheimer's patients
Fecha
2002-01-01Registro en:
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. Copenhagen: Blackwell Munksgaard, v. 105, n. 1, p. 51-54, 2002.
0001-6314
10.1034/j.1600-0404.2002.00035.x
WOS:000174093000010
Autor
Abrisqueta-Gomez, J.
Bueno, OFA
Oliveira, MGM
Bertolucci, PHF
Institución
Resumen
Objective - the purpose of the present study was to examine whether Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients can benefit from the emotional content of visual stimuli in a picture recognition test. Method- Sixteen patients with AD and 19 normal controls matched for age and years of education, were studied. Sixteen pictures (with varying emotional contents) were presented to each participant. Thirty minutes later, a recognition test was applied with the target-pictures mixed among 34 others of similar content. the subjects were instructed to rate them as pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent. Results - the total of pictures correctly recognized by the AD patients (75.4% of the target-picture S) was smaller than that of the controls (96.4%). Controls recognized more emotional pictures than indifferent pictures. Conclusions - Emotional content enhanced recognition of pictures in normal subjects, whereas for the Alzheimer's subjects the emotional significance attached to the pictures was of no benefit to enhance recognition.