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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Memory-Enhancing Effect of Emotion
Published on: May 4, 2011
Do patients with schizophrenia consciously recollect emotional events better than neutral events?
Jean-Marie Danion1, Mathilde Kazes, Caroline Huron
1INSERM Unite 405, Départment of Psychiatrie, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg Cedex, France. danion@alsace.u-strasbg.fr
Objective:
The influence of the emotional valence of words on conscious awareness was assessed in patients with schizophrenia.
Method:
The remember/know procedure was used to test 24 patients with schizophrenia and 24 normal comparison subjects.
Results:
Patients' "remember" responses and conscious recollection were more frequent for emotional words than for neutral words. In contrast, the levels of "know" responses and familiarity were independent of emotional words.
Conclusions:
Patients with schizophrenia consciously recollected emotional words better than neutral words.
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