Cognitive impairment following frontal lobe damage and its relevance to human amnesia.
Cognitive impairment following frontal lobe damage and its relevance to human amnesia.
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DOI:
10.1037//0735-7044.103.3.548
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发表时间:
1989-06
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
J. Janowsky;A. Shimamura;M. Kritchevsky;L. Squire
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作者:
J. Janowsky;A. Shimamura;M. Kritchevsky;L. Squire
Whether frontal lobe pathology can account for some of the cognitive impairment observed in amnesic patients with Korsakoff's syndrome was investigated. Various cognitive and memory tests were given to patients with circumscribed frontal lobe lesions, patients with Korsakoff's syndrome, non-Korsakoff amnesic patients, and control Ss. Patients with frontal lobe lesions were not amnesic. Nevertheless they exhibited 2 deficits that were also exhibited by patients with Korsakoff's syndrome but not by other amnesic patients: (a) impairment on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and (b) impairment on the Initiation and Preservation subscale of the Dementia Rating Scale. Thus, frontal lobe pathology can explain some of the cognitive deficits observed in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome.