TRANSIENT IMPROVEMENT OF MEMORY IN SENILE DEMENTIA FOLLOWING MNEMONIC TRAINING |
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| Authors: | Carol Koch Mary A Luszcz David H Overstreet Philip J Henschke |
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| Institution: | Schools of Social Sciences, Biological Scienccr and Medicine‘. The Flinders University of South Australia. Bedford Park, South Australia |
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| Abstract: | The effect of Levodopa administration and mnemonic strategy training in the treatment of memory deficits associated with denile dementia of the Alzheimer type was investigated in a short-term longitudinal study. Levodopa administration exerted no significant effect upon memory functioning whereas training in the chunking of information and in visual association led to a significant, but temporary, improvement in memory functioning. Training raised performance of demented subjects to about 58% of that of non-demented controls, compared to the 38% observed at baseline. No significant interactions between the drug and training manipulation were indicated. |
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