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Reducing State Anxiety Using Working Memory Maintenance
Published on: July 19, 2017
Verbal memory functions in unipolar major depression with and without co-morbid anxiety
P Lyche1, R Jonassen, T C Stiles
1Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. p.e.lyche@psykologi.uio.no
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to examine both executive control of verbal working memory and verbal learning as well as long-term storage function in outpatients with major depressive disorder (n = 61) compared to healthy controls (n = 92). A total of 37 patients had no co-morbid anxiety disorder, whereas 24 had a co-morbid anxiety disorder. Both patient groups showed impaired working memory test performance compared to healthy controls. Patients with co-morbid depression and anxiety disorder performed significantly below the depression group. Only patients with depression and co-morbid anxiety displayed deficient long-term memory function compared to healthy controls. The present results show impairments in various memory functions in patients presenting depression and depression with co-morbid anxiety disorder.
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