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Cognitive and memory impairment is a frequent finding in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) (Taylor et al., 1986; Growdon and Corkin, 1986) and in depression (Sternberg and Jarvik, 1976; Wertman et al., 1993). Heterogeneity of memory dysfunction in different neurological illnesses has recently raised interest. The impaired memory in the PD patients has been suggested to be an indication of mild frontal lobe dysfuntion (Taylor et al., 1986). In positron emission tomography, depression in PD has been associated with hypometabolism in the inferior frontal lobe and the caudate nucleus (Mayberg et al., 1990). Structural changes in the caudate nucleus and white matter in magnetic resonance imaging have been associated with late age onset depression (Figiel et al., 1990). Despite similar memory dysfunction, the underlying cognitive processes contributing to dysfunction may differ. We, therefore, examined working memory, learning ability, and retrieval from semantic memory and their relationship to frontal dysfunctions in PD patients, in depressive patients and in controls.
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Helkala, EL., Laulumaa, V., Järvinen, J., Riekkinen, P. (1995). Frontal Dysfunction and Memory Deficit in Depression and Parkinson’s Disease. In: Hanin, I., Yoshida, M., Fisher, A. (eds) Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9145-7_10
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