Episodic memory impairment in children and adolescents at risk for schizophrenia: A role for context processing.

ABSTRACT: People with schizophrenia experience episodic memory impairments that have been theorized to reflect deficits in processing context (e.g., spatio-temporal features tied to a specific event). Although past research has reported episodic memory impairments in young people at-risk for schizophrenia, the extent to which these impairments reflect context processing deficits remains unknown. We addressed this gap in the literature by examining whether children and adolescents at risk for schizophrenia exhibit context processing deficits during free recall, a memory task with high contextual demands. Our sample included three groups (N = 58, 9-16 years old) varying in risk for schizophrenia:16 high-risk, unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, an

SUBMITTER: Imamoglu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8861422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature