Schizophrenia
Illness could cause patients to forget their medication
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 7th, 2003
Habitual tasks, like taking medicine every few hours, rely on "prospective memory". This type of memory, which appears to be impaired by schizophrenia, enables you to remember that you have to do something in the future, without being prompted.
Brita Elvevag, from the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and her colleagues who carried out the research published in BMC...
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