Title :

The “Sickness” Memory Can Patients With Alzheimer Disease Remember the Diagnosis Announcement?

Author(s) :

El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Allain, Philippe [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Antoine, Pascal [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Chapelet, Guillaume [Auteur]
The Enteric Nervous System in gut and brain disorders [U1235] [TENS]
Kapogiannis, Dimitrios [Auteur]
Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire [Auteur]
Service de neurochirurgie [CHU Nantes]
Gallouj, Karim [Auteur]
Centre Hospitalier Gustave Dron [Tourcoing]

Journal title :

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volume number :

36

Pages :

362-364

Publisher :

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

Publication date :

2022-03-30

ISSN :

0893-0341

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Background: Diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) can cause substantial psychological distress in patients. We thus assessed how patients with AD remember the announcement of diagnosis. ...
Show more >Background: Diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) can cause substantial psychological distress in patients. We thus assessed how patients with AD remember the announcement of diagnosis. Methods: We recruited 47 participants with mild AD (26 women; M age=68.89 y, SD=7.37; M years of formal education=9.74, SD=3.00). We invited the participants to remember the moment when their clinicians announced their diagnosis, within 6 months of the event, as well as a control memory, over the same period. We analyzed memory retrieval regarding specificity, as well as the subjective experience of retrieval (ie, regarding mental time travel, visual imagery, emotion and importance). Results: No significant differences were observed between memory of diagnosis and control memory regarding specificity, mental time travel and visual imagery. However, memory of diagnosis triggered a more intense emotional experience and feeling of importance than control memory. Discussion: Retrieval of the diagnosis announcement can activate a strong emotional and personally important experience in patients with AD. When remembering the diagnosis announcement, patients with AD may re-experience some features of that turning point in which they shift from “person” to “patient.”Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Dynamique Émotionnelle et Pathologies (DEEP)

Submission date :

2023-12-31T16:29:58Z
2023-12-31T19:14:19Z
2024-01-10T09:06:38Z
2024-03-25T13:14:48Z