Tell about yourself to improve your autobiographical memory: A study of Korsakoff's syndrome.

Autor: Haj ME; Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638), Université de Nantes, Nantes, France; Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France. Electronic address: el.haj@hotmail.fr., Gandolphe MC; Univ. Lille, CNRS, CHU Lille, UMR 9193 - SCALab, Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, Lille F-59000, France., Moustafa AA; School of Social Sciences and Psychology & Marcs Institute for Brain and Behaviour, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia; Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University,Doha, Qata., Nandrino JL; Univ. Lille, CNRS, CHU Lille, UMR 9193 - SCALab, Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, Lille F-59000, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychiatry research [Psychiatry Res] 2018 Oct; Vol. 268, pp. 37-41. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jun 30.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.06.064
Abstrakt: Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) has been associated with a difficulty to retrieve specific autobiographical memories. We investigated whether this difficulty can be alleviated after the retrieval of statements describing self-images. KS patients and control participants were recruited and asked to retrieve autobiographical memories after providing statements to the question "Who am I?" and after a control condition consisting of verbal fluency. Analysis showed higher autobiographical specificity in the "Who am I?" than in verbal fluency condition in both patients with KS and control participants. At a theoretical level, our findings demonstrate how retrieval of information related to conceptual self may influence autobiographical memory in KS. At a clinical level, our procedures are important as they demonstrate how a simple task (i.e., "Who am I?" statements) may serve as a tool to cue specific autobiographical memories in patients with KS.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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