Influence of age and executive functioning on verbal memory of inpatients with XXXX .

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BACKGROUND: Despite many studies demonstrating memory and executive impairments in young and old @entity308 @entity1 , the relationships between age, executive functioning and memory have not been evaluated in @entity308 . The aim of this study was to investigate if older @entity1 were more vulnerable than younger @entity1 to the impact of @entity308 on memory and if the differences between young and old @entity308 could be related to executive functioning. METHODS: Forty-nine inpatients, with @entity162 , ranging in age from 19 to 72 years were compared with 70 controls on a verbal memory task. Age cut-off of 45 years was used as a categorical variable to divide subjects into subgroups. A subset of @entity1 (n=41) was also evaluated with the modified version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and separated into a non-dysexecutive group and a group of @entity1 with mild-executive impairment. RESULTS: @entity308 @entity1 exhibited @entity2414 with a pattern of memory failure -- impaired free recall and normal cued recall and recognition -- interpreted as a retrieval problem. Both age and executive function influenced memory performance in @entity308 , however neither group x age interaction nor age x executive status interaction were significant. Multiple regression analysis showed that free recall scores were related to age and @entity1155 in @entity308 @entity1 . CONCLUSION: Age and executive functioning have different influences on the memory performance of @entity308 @entity1 . Our findings support an 'executive memory decline hypothesis' in young as well as old @entity308 @entity1 . The @entity2414 in @entity308 may be associated with both trait and state factors and raise questions about the long-term cognitive functioning of @entity1 with recurrent @entity1316 .
