Remote memory for public and personal events in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease
This study sought to clarify the status of autobiographical memory in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease by comparing patients' performance on two different types of tasks: Crovitz word cue task and a structured autobiographical memory questionnaire. The latter has been suggested t...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-1996
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| Summary: | This study sought to clarify the status of autobiographical memory in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease by comparing patients' performance on two different types of tasks: Crovitz word cue task and a structured autobiographical memory questionnaire. The latter has been suggested to place less demands on the retrieval process (MacKinnon & Squire, 1989). AD patients were found to display a flat retrograde loss on the word cues task whereas normal elderly controls displayed a recency effect. On the structured questionnaire, AD patients displayed a pattern of recall similar to normals but at a significantly lower level. These findings suggest that impaired remote memory in Alzheimer's disease is due to the concomitant effects of loss of information and a retrieval deficit. Additionally, the word cue task was not found to correlate consistently with measures of remote semantic memory (personal semantic questionnaire and a remote public events test) disputing previous suggestions (Kopelman, 1987) that this task may place demands on semantic memory in AD. |
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| ISBN: | 0591332280 9780591332285 |