Destination memory in mild Alzheimer's Disease

Issue title: Neuropsychology across the Lifespan: Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology

Article type: Research Article

Authors: El Haj, Mohamad | Postal, Virginie | Le Gall, Didier^; | Allain, Philippe^;

Affiliations: Laboratoire de Psychologie EA 2646, Université d'Angers, Angers, France | Laboratoire de Psychologie, Santé et Qualité de vie, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France | Centre Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France

Note: [] Corresponding author: Mohamad El Haj, Laboratoire de Psychologie EA 2646, Université d'Angers, Maison des Sciences Humaines, 5 bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, France. Tel.: +33 6 73 08 78 76; Fax: +33 2 41 22 63 95; E-mail: el.haj@hotmail.fr

Abstract: In order to assess their destination memory, sixteen patients with probable mild Alzheimer Disease (AD), sixteen older adults and 16 young adults were asked to tell facts to pictures. On a subsequent task, they were asked to remember whether they had previously told that fact to that face or not. AD patients showed poorer destination recall than the older adults, and the older adults showed poorer destination recall than the young adults. Our results suggest that destination memory is highly impaired in AD.

Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, destination memory, inhibition

DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2012-129014

Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 215-216, 2013