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Clinical Tests of Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael D. Kopelman
Michael D. Kopelman*
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Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Abstract

This study compared the performance of groups Alzheimer, Korsakoff, and depressed patients and a group of healthy controls at various clinical tests of memory, and wide differences were found in the discriminatory power of the different tests. In addition, the patterns of performance of the Alzheimer and Korsakoff groups differed, and to some extent this was understandable in terms of what is known about the nature of organic amnesia. Depressed patients showed relatively mild impairments, which were not correlated with the severity of their depression.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 517 - 525
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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