Validation of the Face-Name Pairs Task in Major Depression: Impaired recall but not recognition.

Validation of the Face-Name Pairs Task in Major Depression: Impaired recall but not recognition.

Major depression can be associated with neurocognitive deficits which are believed in part to be related to medial temporal lobe pathology. The purpose of this study was to investigate this impairment using a hippocampal-dependent neuropsychological task. The Face-Name pairs task was used to assess...

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Main Authors: Kimberley J Smith, Sinead eMullally, Declan eMcLoughlin, Shane M O'Mara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Cognition
Depression
Memory
recognition
Recall
face-name pairs
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00092/full

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