Contribution of the depressive perspective to memory function in depression

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Abstract
A story recall paradigm was used to elucidate some aspects of the memory problems of depressive patients. Hospitalized depressed patients [21] were compared with a matched group of control subjects for recall of a theme story containing material with postive, negative and neutral affective tones. Results indicated an overall deficit in the story recall of the depressed patients, most of which could be ascribed to a decrement in recall of the positive themes in the story. Recall of the negative and neutral themes remained intact. Apparently a depressive perspective contributes 1 component to the memory difficulties of depressed patients.

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