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A special feature of P/S Day at UMBC 2012 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universites free of charge, but... REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!!! The deadline to register is Friday, April 6, 2012.   // REGISTER NOW

For more info, contact any member of the organizing committee:

Bimal Sinha, Conference Chair
443-538-3012

Nagaraj Neerchal
Thomas Mathew
Anindya Roy
Junyoung Park
DoHwan Park
Yvonne Huang
Elizabeth Stanwyck
Yaakov Malinovsky
Kofi Adragni

Participants

Kirsten Polins

Anhedonia is Associated with Memory Impairment for Positive Emotion in Schizophrenia

Individuals with Schizophrenia display a discrepancy between reports of current pleasure, which appear to be intact, and reports of past pleasure obtained through clinical rating scales, which are diminished. In the current study, we examined whether this discrepancy can be explained by deficits in emotional memory. Participants included 24 Schizophrenia patients with Anhedonia, 39 patients without Anhedonia, and 41 healthy demographically matched controls. All subjects completed an emotional memory measure, the Emotional Verbal Learning Test, which examines recall and recognition of happiness, sadness, anger, and anxiety words. Results indicated that controls and non-Anhedonic Schizophrenia patients have superior recall for happiness rather than sadness, anger, anxiety at immediate recall trial 1, the total of trials 1 through 5, and long-delay recall. In contrast, patients with Anhedonia did not show this superiority at immediate recall trial 1 or long-delay free recall. These findings suggest that Anhedonia is associated with impaired encoding and retrieval of positive information in people with Schizophrenia.