ஐ.எஸ்.எஸ்.என்: 2167-0277
Yi-jun Ge, Lan Xia, Fang Wang and Gui-hai Chen
Objective: To explore changes of procedural memory in the patients with primary insomnia (PI) and itscharacteristics.
Methods: Thirty-six PI patients and 36 controls were enrolled. The procedural memory was respectivelydetected by category exemplar generation and motor sequence tasks respectively, and the declarative memory wasassessed by free word task.
Results: Compared to the controls, the PI patients showed few correct numbers in the category exemplargeneration (7.7 ± 2.1 vs. 9.9 ± 1.0, z = 5.247, P