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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Psychology Année : 2012

Preserved and impaired emotional memory in Alzheimer's disease.

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Patients with early atrophy of both limbic structures involved in memory and emotion processing in Alzheimer's disease (AD) provide a unique clinical population for investigating how emotion is able to modulate retention processes. This review focuses on the emotional enhancement effect (EEE), defined as the improvement of memory for emotional events compared with neutral ones. The assessment of the EEE for different memory systems in AD suggests that the EEE could be preserved under specific retrieval instructions. The first part of this review examines these data in light of compelling evidence that the amygdala can modulate processes of hippocampus-dependent memory. We argue that the EEE could be a useful paradigm to reduce impairment in episodic memory tasks. In the second part, we discuss theoretical consequences of the findings in favor of an EEE, according to which a compensatory mechanism in patients with AD solicits greater amygdala functioning or additional networks, even when amygdala atrophy is present. These considerations emphasize the relevance of investigating patients with AD to understand the relationship between emotion and memory processes.
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hal-00790332 , version 1 (19-02-2013)

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Yanica Klein-Koerkamp, Monica Baciu, Pascal Hot. Preserved and impaired emotional memory in Alzheimer's disease.. Frontiers in Psychology, 2012, 3, pp.331. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00331⟩. ⟨hal-00790332⟩
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