OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore whether @entity2414 in @entity161 are attributable to poor organisation/encoding during initial learning vs. memory decay. METHODS: Subjects included geriatric @entity161 / @entity914 [ @entity15838 ; n = 37; age = 59.92 (55-74); education = 11.70 (7-18)]; @entity4943 [ @entity4943 ; n = 41; age = 76.59 (64-83); education = 14.61 (12-20)] and geriatric controls [n = 107; age = 70.97 (55-93); education = 13.76 (6-20)]. Subjects were administered the Wechsler Memory Scale, Third Edition and discrepancy scores between immediate and delayed subtests/indices were used to explore possible differences between groups in pattern of impairment. RESULTS: Significant differences were found between groups on age/education and these variables were related to several outcome measures. Gender was not related to diagnostic group and there were no gender differences on study variables. There were differences between the @entity15838 subjects on several variables, with the schizoaffective subjects performing worse despite equivalence on global cognitive function, living status and chronicity. Seven one-way between-subjects ANCOVAs compared groups on discrepancy scores. RESULTS failed to suggest differences between groups on immediate-delayed memory discrepancy scores (p > 0.05). Subsequent analyses revealed differences in percentage retention scores between @entity15838 and @entity4943 on the faces subtest (p = 0.040), with @entity15838 retaining greater information over time. CONCLUSION: RESULTS failed to show distinctions between groups on pattern of @entity2414 when using discrepancy comparisons. However, an analysis examining percentage retention scores revealed better maintenance of non-contextual visual information over time in @entity15838 . Findings may suggest deficits in immediate encoding rather than memory decay for some types of memory ability among geriatric @entity15838 . Our failure to document group differences when using discrepancy comparisons may be attributable to relative similarity in pattern between groups or the limited sensitivity of this technique.

Pattern of memory compromise in chronic geriatric @entity161 , XXXX and normal geriatric controls.

@entity914 :: ('MESH:D011618', 'Disease') :: ['schizoaffective disorders'] @entity161 :: ('MESH:D012559', 'Disease') :: ['schizophrenia'] @entity15838 :: ('MESH:C563928', 'Disease') :: ['SSD'] @entity4943 :: ('MESH:D057180', 'Disease') :: ['FTD', 'frontotemporal dementia'] @entity2414 :: ('MESH:D008569', 'Disease') :: ['memory deficits', 'memory impairment']
@entity4943 :: (MESH:D057180,Disease) :: ['frontotemporal dementia']
