UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Eduard-Walln¨ofer-Zentrum 1, A-6060 Hall, Tirol, Austria.
Behav Med. 2013;39(1):11-6. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2012.708684.
The study investigated implicit memory function in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and its association with clinical parameters. Implicit memory refers to the influence of past experience on current behavior without conscious awareness of these experiences. Eighteen FMS patients and 25 healthy individuals accomplished a word-stem completion task. As possible factors mediating the expected impairment, pain severity, emotional disorders, and medication were taken into account. The patients displayed markedly reduced task performance and higher levels of depression and anxiety. Among the clinical features, pain severity was most closely associated with performance, whereas depression, anxiety, and medication showed only a minor impact. The study documented reduced implicit memory function in FMS. In contrast to former findings on impaired performance of FMS patients on classical memory tests, lower implicit memory function cannot be ascribed to motivational deficits. Instead, the aberrances may relate to functional inference between central nervous nociceptive activity and cognitive processing.
该研究调查了纤维肌痛综合征（FMS）中的内隐记忆功能及其与临床参数的关系。内隐记忆是指过去经验对当前行为的影响，而没有这些经验的意识觉察。18 名 FMS 患者和 25 名健康个体完成了单词词干补全任务。考虑到可能影响预期损伤的因素，包括疼痛严重程度、情绪障碍和药物治疗。与健康个体相比，患者的任务表现明显下降，且抑郁和焦虑程度更高。在这些临床特征中，疼痛严重程度与表现最为密切相关，而抑郁、焦虑和药物治疗仅显示出较小的影响。该研究记录了 FMS 患者内隐记忆功能的降低。与之前关于 FMS 患者在经典记忆测试中表现受损的发现相反，较低的内隐记忆功能不能归因于动机缺陷。相反，这种异常可能与中枢神经系统伤害性活动和认知处理之间的功能推断有关。
