TY - CHAP
T1 - Semantic memory and symptomatology in schizophrenia
T2 - A review
AU - Laws, K.R.
AU - Leeson, Verity C.
AU - Al-Uzri, Mohammed M.
AU - Kondel, Tejinder K.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This chapter reviews the past twenty years of research on semantic memory function in schizophrenia. This now substantial body of work has consistently documented abnormal semantic memory in most schizophrenia patients across a range of tasks (including priming, semantic fluency, picture naming) and which, varies from being quite mild through to some cases being indistinguishable from the impairment seen in Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, although some patients have problems accessing intact semantics, others-possibly with longer illness duration-show an apparent loss of knowledge from the semantic store itself. While the abnormalities of semantic memory i.e. knowledge, offer a potential candidate of explanation for some symptoms, little work has examined the relationship between semantic memory and symptomatology.
AB - This chapter reviews the past twenty years of research on semantic memory function in schizophrenia. This now substantial body of work has consistently documented abnormal semantic memory in most schizophrenia patients across a range of tasks (including priming, semantic fluency, picture naming) and which, varies from being quite mild through to some cases being indistinguishable from the impairment seen in Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, although some patients have problems accessing intact semantics, others-possibly with longer illness duration-show an apparent loss of knowledge from the semantic store itself. While the abnormalities of semantic memory i.e. knowledge, offer a potential candidate of explanation for some symptoms, little work has examined the relationship between semantic memory and symptomatology.
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84895307478
SN - 9781620815168
T3 - Psychiatry - Theory, Applications and Treatments
SP - 133
EP - 166
BT - Psychosis
A2 - Anastassion-Hadjicharalambous, Xenia
PB - Nova Science Publishers Inc., USA.
CY - Hauppauge, NY
ER -