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Verbal Memory and Working Memory Deficit in Patients with Schizophrenia and Their First Degree Relatives


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1 Department of Clinical Psychology, Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, K. S. Mani Centre for Cognitive Neurosciences, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
3 Department of Clinical Psychology, Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, RINPAS Kanke, Ranchi, India
     

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Patients with schizophrenia perform poorly on various cognitive functions tasks. Of late, there is surge in interest in determining the endophenotypic value of cognitive functions in schizophrenia. The present study was conducted aiming to understand the status and endophenotypic value of working memory and verbal memory in schizophrenia. Fifteen schizophrenia patients, their healthy siblings (N=15) and healthy controls (N=15) participated in the study. Patients performed significantly poorer than the healthy controls. Siblings of patients with schizophrenia also performed poorly than the healthy controls. Findings have been discussed in the light of endophenotypic value of verbal memory and working memory in schizophrenia.

Keywords

Working, Emory (WM), Verbal Memory, Endophenotype, Schizophrenia.
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Authors

Priyadarshee Abhishek
Department of Clinical Psychology, Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India
S. Haque Nizamie
Department of Psychiatry, K. S. Mani Centre for Cognitive Neurosciences, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Masroor Jahan
Department of Clinical Psychology, Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, RINPAS Kanke, Ranchi, India

Abstract


Patients with schizophrenia perform poorly on various cognitive functions tasks. Of late, there is surge in interest in determining the endophenotypic value of cognitive functions in schizophrenia. The present study was conducted aiming to understand the status and endophenotypic value of working memory and verbal memory in schizophrenia. Fifteen schizophrenia patients, their healthy siblings (N=15) and healthy controls (N=15) participated in the study. Patients performed significantly poorer than the healthy controls. Siblings of patients with schizophrenia also performed poorly than the healthy controls. Findings have been discussed in the light of endophenotypic value of verbal memory and working memory in schizophrenia.

Keywords


Working, Emory (WM), Verbal Memory, Endophenotype, Schizophrenia.