Earlier memories are relatively spared in dementia. Why?

Earlier memories are relatively spared in dementia. Why? - Psyche

Yet, as illustrated by the woman I spoke with in the museum, not all periods of one's life are equally hard to remember for someone with ...

The Content of Nostalgic Memories Among People Living with ...

Although the neurological deterioration inherent in dementia inevitably impacts on cognitive functions that underpin autobiographical memory, it is unclear ...

Autobiographical memory loss in Alzheimer's disease: The role of ...

There is some evidence that memories for the earlier parts of life are relatively spared compared with memories for the more recent past (Kirk & Berntsen, 2018, ...

Understanding Memory Dysfunction - PMC

Disorders that affect multiple brain regions, such as multiple sclerosis and vascular dementia, generally progress in a stepwise manner. Some disorders of ...

Human Memory Systems: A Framework for Understanding Dementia

The specific neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) results in significant working and episodic memory impairments, but relatively spared nondeclarative ...

How to Capture Memories with a Dementia Diagnosis - Home Instead

Alzheimer's may cause impairments in short-term memory, however remote memory can be left relatively intact, according to the Alzheimer's ...

Why musical memory can be preserved in advanced Alzheimer's ...

Musical memory is relatively preserved in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. In a 7 Tesla functional MRI study employing multi-voxel ...

Autobiographical memory in dementia syndromes—An integrative ...

Although early consensus criteria emphasized a relative sparing of episodic memory in bvFTD, mounting evidence now indicates pervasive episodic ...

Memory loss and dementia | Alzheimer's Society

People with dementia often experience memory loss. This is because dementia is caused by damage to the brain, and this damage can affect areas of the brain ...

Emotional Memory Intact in an Individual with Vascular Dementia

There is some evidence that the amygdala may be relatively spared in aging and dementing processes.9 The amygdala appears to play an important ...

Episodic memory in frontotemporal dementia: a critical review | Brain

The relative intactness of episodic memory, therefore, appeared to be a useful diagnostic marker to distinguish early frontotemporal dementia ...

Semantic Dementia - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

However, there is some evidence that this good memory may not persist and that patients become very impaired at remembering episodes which are a year or so old.

Dementia: Definition and Types. Alzheimer, Vascular, Parkinson ...

Memory impairment is generally a prominent early symptom. Individuals with ... relative sparing of the parietal and occipital lobes. The diagnosis of ...

(PDF) Lost for Words or Loss of Memories? Autobiographical ...

... dementia show a loss of early (remote) autobiographical memories with pronounced sparing... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

is not lost”—Rethinking the nature of memory and the self in dementia

... relative profiles of loss and sparing, across three neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, and frontotemporal dementia. By ...

An update on semantic dementia: genetics, imaging, and pathology

In contrast, recent studies have confirmed that episodic memory is relatively preserved in SD, particularly when tasks with minimal conceptual ...

Episodic memory: insights from semantic dementia

but with relative sparing of the hippocampus. Figure 1 shows an illustrative coronal T1 weighted MRI image from another more recently studied patient with ...

What is BvFTD? (Behavioral Variant FTD), Pick's Disease - AFTD

Unlike in Alzheimer's disease, memory is usually relatively spared in bvFTD. People with bvFTD typically do not recognize the changes in their own behavior ...

Patterns of autobiographical memory loss in dementia - ResearchGate

Several studies have found impaired recall of remote autobiographical memories relative to recent memories in semantic dementia (SD), ...

Does music unlock memory? - USC Today

... memories remain relatively spared in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias,” Hennessy says. “Nostalgic music allows us to connect to our ...