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Article Dans Une Revue American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias Année : 2020

The Swinging Self: The Costs of Shifting Between Self-Images in Alzheimer’s Disease

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BACKGROUND: We investigated the ability of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to shift between different self-images. METHODS: We developed an original task (shifting-self task) in which we invited 28 patients with AD and 30 control participants to generate "who am I" statements that describe 2 alternative self-images (ie, physical-self vs psychological-self). In a control task, participants had to generate 2 blocks of "who am I" statements (ie, physical-self block and psychological-self block). RESULTS: Analyses showed longer completion time in both the shifting-self and control task in patients with AD than in control participants. Completion time on the shifting-self task was longer than that on the control task in patients with AD, suggesting a shifting cost in AD. CONCLUSION: We propose that one feature of the diminished sense of self in AD is the difficulty of patients to shift between different alternating self-images.
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Emin Altintas, Ahmed A Moustafa, Karim Gallouj, Mohamad El Haj. The Swinging Self: The Costs of Shifting Between Self-Images in Alzheimer’s Disease. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 2020, 35, pp.1533317520905401. ⟨10.1177/1533317520905401⟩. ⟨hal-03662356⟩
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