TY - JOUR A1 - Arndt, Larissa R. A1 - Esser, Günter A1 - Weirich, Sebastian A1 - Oelsner, Henriette A1 - Ebersbach, Georg A1 - Bengner, Thomas T1 - Face Memory in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Moderated by Sex and Encoding Duration JF - Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie N2 - We examined face memory deficits in patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) with specific regard to the moderating role of sex and the different memory processes involved. We tested short- and long-term face recognition memory in 18 nonclinical participants and 18 IPD-patients matched for sex, education and age. We varied the duration of item presentation (1, 5, 10s), the time of testing (immediately, 1hr, 24hrs) and the possibility to re-encode items. In accordance with earlier studies, we report face memory deficits in IPD. Moreover, our findings indicate that sex and encoding conditions may be important moderator variables. In contrast to healthy individuals, IPD-patients cannot gain from increasing duration of presentation. Furthermore, our results suggest that I PD leads to face memory deficits in women, only. KW - neuropsychology KW - declarative memory KW - Morbus Parkinson KW - gender KW - episodic memory Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264X/a000148 SN - 1016-264X SN - 1664-2902 VL - 26 IS - 2 SP - 109 EP - 120 PB - Hogrefe CY - Bern ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steuer, Ralf A1 - Ebeling, Werner A1 - Bengner, Thomas A1 - Dehnicke, C. A1 - Hattig, H. A1 - Meencke, H. J. T1 - Entropy and complexity analysis of intracranially recorded EEG N2 - We present an entropy and complexity analysis of intracranially recorded EEG from patients suffering from a left frontal lobe epilepsy. Our approach is based on symbolic dynamics and Shannon entropy. In particular, we will discuss the possibility to monitor long-term dynamical changes in brain electrical activity. This might offer an alternative approach for the analysis and more fundamental understanding of human epilepsies Y1 - 2004 SN - 0218-1274 ER -