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ReviewBehavioural neurology2020

False Memory in Alzheimer's Disease.

Mohamad El Haj, Fabienne Colombel, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Karim Gallouj

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In one paragraph

Review in Behavioural neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohamad El HajUniv Nantes, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL), EA 4638, F-44000 Nantes, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-7557
Fabienne ColombelUniv Nantes, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL), EA 4638, F-44000 Nantes, France.
Dimitrios KapogiannisLaboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Karim GalloujUnité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France.
Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing · FRInstitut Universitaire de France · FRLaboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire · FRNational Institute on Aging · US

Funding

Studies in Dementia and Neurodegenerative DiseasesZIAAG000975 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI KAPOGIANNIS, DIMITRIOS · 2009 to 2025
$31.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) not only are suffering from amnesia but also are prone to memory distortions, such as experiencing detailed and vivid recollections of episodic events that have never been encountered (i.e., false memories). To describe and explain these distortions, we offer a review to synthesize current knowledge on false memory in AD into a framework allowing for better understanding of the taxonomy and phenomenology of false memories and of the cognitive mechanisms that may underlie false memory formation in AD. According to this review, certain phenomenological characteristics of memories (e.g., high emotional load, high vividness, or high familiarity) result in misattributions in AD. More specifically, this review proposes that generalized decline in cognitive control and inhibition in AD may result in difficulties in suppressing irrelevant information during memory monitoring, especially when irrelevant (i.e., false) information is characterized by high emotion, vividness, or familiarity. This review also proposes that binding deficits in AD decrease the ability to retrieve relevant contextual details, leading to source monitoring errors and false memories. In short, this review depicts how phenomenological characteristics of memories and failures of monitoring during retrieval contribute to the occurrence of false memory in AD.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmnesiaHumansInhibition, PsychologicalMemoryMemory DisordersMemory, EpisodicMental RecallNeuropsychological Tests

Identifiers

PMID32148564
PMCPMC7049840
OpenAlexW3007673133

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