Emotional arousal enhances declarative memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Satler, Corina; Garrido, Lía Margarita Martínez; Sarmiento, Emmanuel; Leme, Sandro Petry Laureano; Conde, Carlos Arturo; Tomaz, Carlos

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0404.2007.00897.x

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“…These findings support the latter hypothesis, that memory for emotionally significant material, such as distress in the family member who acts as the main carer, may remain relatively intact in people with dementia. This finding is compatible with the work of Hamann et al (1997), Kazui et al (2000), and Satler et al (2007), who showed that the emotional arousal caused by emotionally significant material enhances memory in people with cognitive impairment.…”

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Awareness of carer distress in people with dementia

Ablitt¹,

Jones²,

Muers³

2010

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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confidence: 94%

Awareness of carer distress in people with dementia

Ablitt¹,

Jones²,

Muers³

2010

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…This result, which corresponds to intact emotional information processing in aging and AD, is in parallel with previous research [5,25,29,30,43]. The EEM effect was present for the recall of pictures and the pattern was similar in the groups: emotionally valenced (both pleasant and unpleasant) pictures were remembered more than neutral ones.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Others demonstrated different EEM patterns for word recall [24] and for picture recall [25] in AD. In some studies, EEM was in favour of unpleasant stimuli [24,26,27,28,29] while others showed an enhancement for pleasant stimuli [25,30]. These conflicting results are probably due to different methodologies.…”

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The Impact of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease on Emotional Enhancement of Memory

Baran

Cangöz²,

Ozel-Kizil³

2014

Eur Neurol

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Emotional enhancement of memory (EEM) has been a well-known phenomenon which corresponds to the advantage of emotional stimuli to be better recalled than neutral ones. Previous studies suggest that aging favours recollection of positive items and this pattern is disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Emotional valence of different stimulus modalities, i.e. pictures and words, may also have an effect on each other's memory performances. However, none of these were clearly studied in AD. This study aimed to evaluate how emotional valences of simultaneously presented stimuli affected recall in healthy young (YG, n = 30), healthy elderly (HE, n = 30) participants and in patients with AD (n = 30). A battery consisting of emotional words presented on emotional pictures was developed. An analysis of a 3 (Groups) × 3 (Emotional Valence of Picture) × 3 (Emotional Valence of Word) mixed ANOVA design was carried out. Patients with AD could process emotional information similarly to healthy participants; however, they had EEM only for picture recalling. Emotional valence of the co-presented stimulus had a boosting effect both in the YG and HE, but not in AD group, especially if both of the stimuli had the same emotional valence. This study highlights the impaired EEM for verbal and preserved EEM for non-verbal declarative memory in patients with AD, the neurobiological underpinnings of which should be addressed by future studies.

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“…For instance, Kazui et al [18] used a story paradigm in which AD patients heard a neutral story and an emotional story describing a child badly hurt in an automobile accident; recall was better for the emotional than for the neutral story. This pattern was confirmed by Satler et al, [19] who exposed AD patients to a neutral and an emotional story describing a medical operation of a child after a bad car accident. When answering a questionnaire about the stories, AD participants showed better memory for the emotional than for the neutral story.…”

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Flashbulb memories of Paris attacks

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Rationale:Flashbulb memories are detailed and vivid memories of attributes of the reception context of surprising and emotionally arousing public events.Patient concerns and diagnosis:This paper offers a fine-grained view of flashbulb memories in a patient with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD).Interventions:The patient underwent a directed interview about the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris.Outcomes:Unlike her memory about the date and month of the attacks, the patient provided accurate information about the year, time and places they occurred. The patient also provided accurate information about how she first became aware of the attacks, where she was, with whom, what she was doing, and what time it was when she learned about them. As for the affective characteristics of these memories, she tended to have high ratings of vividness and rehearsal. Negative emotional states and great surprise and novelty were also reported.Lessons:By assessing the impact of flashbulb memories in this patient with AD, this paper offers a unique view into how such memories may trigger a considerable recall of context as well much subjective reliving.

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Emotional arousal enhances declarative memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract: We demonstrated that an emotionally arousing content enhances long-term declarative memory in AD. Furthermore, present finding supports the use of this instrument for clinical and research purposes.

Cited by 28 publications

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Awareness of carer distress in people with dementia

Awareness of carer distress in people with dementia

The Impact of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease on Emotional Enhancement of Memory

Flashbulb memories of Paris attacks

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