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Further characterization of patients with amnesia after cardiac arrest

Preserved recognition memory

Department of Neurology (Drs. Volpe and Holtzman), Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY; and the Department of Psychology (Dr. Hirst), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

We observed that patients with amnesia after cardiac arrest had preserved recognition memory despite profound loss of recall memory. In the present study, rate of forgetting was measured in six amnesic subjects for both recall and recognition memory of verbal material. The data show that recall decayed significantly faster for the amnesic subjects than for controls, whereas the rate of forgetting for recognition memory was comparable in both groups. Dissociation between recall and recognition performance is a feature of the amnesic syndrome after cardiac arrest.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Volpe, Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021.

Supported by grant NS-03346–24, NINCDS, and the Burke Foundation.

Accepted for publication July 26, 1985.

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