This study involved persons with memory concerns who participated in two months of cognitive training designed to target
their episodic memory functioning.
The ability to describe the details of your first day at school, a recent holiday gathering or office meeting that took place in the previous weeks or months, for example, depends heavily on intact
episodic memory function.
Not exact matches
Our aging brains similarly show wear in the realm of
episodic memory, the part of brain
function that handles recollections of recent events, like the last few chapters of the book you put down yesterday, or what you had for breakfast.
Professor Peter Jones adds: «These are promising results and suggest that there may be the potential to use game apps to not only improve a patient's
episodic memory, but also their
functioning in activities of daily living.
At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants»
episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and motivation, and their score on the Global Assessment of
Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning
Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological
functioningfunctioning of adults.
We've worked hard to see how we could bridge the gap between the idea that the hippocampus is a purely spatial
memory in the rat to its broader
function as an
episodic memory system in humans, which is the
memory you have for something you did at a particular time and place.
I think it's only very slowly — and I don't even want to claim we've won the argument completely yet — that neuroscientists have begun to accept that there is, at least in animals, a purely spatial
function for the hippocampus and that in addition to its preserved spatial
function, this could form the basis for an
episodic memory system in humans.
Based on evidence from electrophysiological studies showing that both synaptic plasticity and strength of inputs to hippocampal region CA1 vary systematically with ongoing theta oscillations (Hyman et al., 2003; Brankack et al., 1993), it has been suggested that the theta rhythm
functions to separate periods of encoding of current sensory stimuli and retrieval of
episodic memory cued by current stimuli so as to avoid interference that would occur if encoding and retrieval were simultaneous.
Episodic and semantic
memories appear to
function in distinct yet interdependent ways.
Such models are likely relevant to the cognitive impairments (
episodic memory) and negative symptoms (social
functioning) of schizophrenia, and may be useful for the evaluation of novel antipsychotics.
Results: Subchronic PCP treatment induced deficits in
episodic memory, cognitive flexibility and social
functioning, assessed via the novel object recognition, cued reversal learning and social interaction tests.
Independent component analysis was applied to resting state data from two independent datasets to identify common cerebellar contributions to several previously identified intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs) involved in executive control,
episodic memory / self - reflection, salience detection, and sensorimotor
function.
These findings suggest that changes in hippocampal
memory network
function are causally related to
episodic memory impairment in aging, and demonstrate that noninvasive stimulation can be used to alter
memory - related network
function in older adults.
In addition to working
memory, future research in clinical populations should focus on processing speed and
episodic memory, cognitive
functions that are also affected in MS.
In addition, cognitive
function was assessed through a variety of tests that included working
memory, verbal
episodic memory and visual - spatial
memory as well as scanning and tracking.