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Volume 156, Number 3 (July 17, 1999)

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Memory may go to pieces in schizophrenia

People suffering from schizophrenia may remember personal experiences in confusing fragments of information rather than as cohesive events.

References:

Danion, J.-M., L. Rizzo, and A. Bruant. 1999. Functional mechanisms underlying impaired recognition memory and conscious awareness in patients with schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 56(July):639.

Tien, A.Y. 1999. Deficits of information management associated with schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 56(July):647.

Sources:

Jean-Marie Danion
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
INSERM Unité 405
Clinique Psychiatrique
1 Place de l'Hôpital
BP 426
67091 Strasbourg Cedex
France

Allen Y. Tien
Medical Decision Logic, Inc.
7921 Ruxway Road
Baltimore, MD 21204

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 3, July 17, 1999, p. 39. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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