Title :

Memories Supporting Myself: Autobiographical Memory Supports Self-Continuity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Author(s) :

El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Boudoukha, Abdelhalim [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Antoine, Pascal [Auteur]
415060|||Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Moustafa, Ahmed A. [Auteur]
Western Sydney University
Gallouj, Karim [Auteur]
557909|||Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing (VALID)
Allain, Philippe [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]

Journal title :

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Abbreviated title :

JAD

Volume number :

70

Pages :

p.1217-1224

Publisher :

IOS Press

Publication date :

2019-08-20

English keyword(s) :

Alzheimer’s disease
autobiographical memory
self
self-continuity

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

We investigated, for the first time, how people with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) reflect on continuity of their self (i.e., whether they are the same person they were before). We invited people with mild AD and control ...
Show more >We investigated, for the first time, how people with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) reflect on continuity of their self (i.e., whether they are the same person they were before). We invited people with mild AD and control participants to conduct The Thinking about Life Experiences (TALE) Scale. More specifically, we invited participants to indicate whether they think about their life story: when they want to feel that they are the same person that they were before (Item 1), when they are concerned about whether they are still the same type of person that they were earlier (Item 2), when they are concerned about whether their values have changed over time (Item 3), when they are concerned about whether their beliefs have changed over time (Item 4), and when they want to understand how they have changed from who they were before (Item 5). The scores of people with AD and control participants on the items of the TALE scale were similar, except for the first item on which people with AD provided higher scores than did control participants. As demonstrated by scores on Item 1, people with mild AD can retrieve autobiographical memories to reflect on situations in which they want to feel that they are the same person that they were before. In other words, people with mild AD can draw on their personal and meaningful events to maintain a continuous sense of self or even to reflect on situations in which they are concerned about their self-continuity.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 :

2023-12-31T16:49:43Z
2024-01-01T15:28:33Z
2024-01-26T10:26:57Z
2024-03-28T10:14:45Z
2024-03-28T10:32:36Z