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Remembering in Alzh...
Remembering in Alzheimer's disease : utilization of cognitive support
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- Herlitz, Agneta, 1962- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för psykologi,Sektorn för psykologi, Stiftelsen Stockholms Läns Äldrecentrum och Institutionen för geriatrik, Karolinska institutet
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- Nilsson, Lars-Göran, professor (preses)
- Umeå universitet,Centrum för befolkningsstudier (CBS)
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- ISBN 9171745599
- Umeå : Umeå Universitet, 1991
- Engelska 54 s.
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Abstract
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- The aim of the present doctoral thesis was to investigate the ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to utilize cognitive support in order to improve episodic remembering. A review of previous research indicated that most studies have failed to find beneficial effects of encoding support on memory in AD patients. The ability to utilize cognitive support (i.e., motoric activities, semantic organization, and semantic knowledge) for episodic remembering was investigated in five studies (Bäckman & Herlitz, 1990; Herlitz, Adolfsson, Bäckman, & Nilsson, in press; Herlitz & Bäckman, 1990; Herlitz & Viitanen, in press; Karlsson et al., 1989). Patients with mild, moderate, or severe AD, and normal older adults participated in the studies. On the basis of the results from these studies and the review of the literature, it was concluded that (a) AD patients, irrespective of dementia severity, perform at a lower level than normal older adults in episodic memory tasks; (b) provided that support is supplied at retrieval, AD patients may be sensitive to manipulations at encoding; (c) the strength of the encoding manipulation determines the size of the memory improvement in AD patients; and (d) depending on dementia severity, the type of encoding support also determines the magnitude of memory improvement obtained.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Geriatrik (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Geriatrics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Alzheimer's disease
- Dementia
- Memory
- Episodic memory
- Semantic memory
- Severity of dementia
- Alzheimers sjukdom
- demens
- minne
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