1MPhil, Clinical Psychologist, Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, 92 APC Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3MPhil, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
4DM, Associate Professor of Neurology, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences (BIN), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
*Correspondence Prof. Pritha Mukhopadhyay, Department of Psychology, University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture (UCSTA), 92 APC Road, Kolkata-700009, West Bengal, India. prithamukhopadhyay@gmail.com
Online published on 16 January, 2019.
Wilson's disease manifests as neuro-psychological or psychiatric symptoms along with neurological and liver disease. The present study aimed to probe into the declarative and non-declarative memory profile of Wilson's disease patients from a neurocognitive perspective.
The study involved a sample of 12 Wilson's disease patients and 12 matched non-patient individuals who were assessed on Global Assessment Scale for Wilson's disease, the Edinburgh handedness inventory, memory scales from PGI Battery of Brain Dysfunction, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, and mirror tracing task.
The overall result indicated that the Wilson's disease patient group differed with their non-patient counterparts with respect to immediate memory, recall, recognition, semantic memory, and procedural learning.
The neural substrates related to the neuro-psychological symptoms of Wilson's disease patients are found to be a neural network involving basal ganglia, fronto-striatal circuits, and cerebellar region.
Psychiatry, Liver Disease, Memory, Neural Substrates
