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Variação temporal no desempenho em testes de memória em pacientes com doença vascular cerebral Temporal variation in memory tests performance in cerebral vascular disease patients

Authors :
Tania Fernandes Campos
Damião Ernane de Souza
Carolina Dutra Gomes Pinheiro
Alexandre Augusto de Lara Menezes
Source :
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 212-219 (2007)
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
SpringerOpen, 2007.

Abstract

Buscando adequar a avaliação neuropsicológica à organização temporal do organismo humano, avaliou-se o desempenho em testes de memória em 12 pacientes pós Doença Vascular Cerebral e 12 indivíduos controle, de ambos os sexos, com idade de 45 a 65 anos. Foram aplicados dois testes de memória com estímulos visuais (figuras) e dois com estímulos verbais (palavras), em 3 dias consecutivos por semana, às 08:00, 10:00 e 12:00 h na primeira semana e às 14:00 e 16:00 h na seguinte. Os pacientes apresentaram menor número de acertos do que os indivíduos controle em todos os testes aplicados (pThis study intended to investigate the performance in memory tests in order to adequate the neuropsychological evaluation to the temporal order of the human organism. Twelve cerebral vascular accident patients and 12 controls, of both sexes and 45-65 years old were studied. Two memory tests with visual stimuli (pictures) and two with verbal stimuli (words) were applied three times a day (08:00, 10:00 and 12:00 h) during the first week and twice a day (14:00 and 16:00 h) in the second week, during three consecutive days in two consecutive weeks. The patients showed lower scores than control subjects in all applied tests (p

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01027972 and 16787153
Volume :
20
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.4c9ab31ca8ed427da27ef514cc4f81a0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-79722007000200006