The temporal organization and quality of life story memories in Alzheimer disease and healthy controls.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q3 NEUROSCIENCES

Neuropsychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1037/neu0000990

Tilmann Habermas, Caroline Gruler, Nina Jaeschke, Larissa Rapp, Rebekka Weygandt, Fabian Fußer, Stefan Frisch

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Abstract

Objective: Autobiographical memory has been studied in Alzheimer's disease (AD) by asking for a specified number of memories from a few defined life periods. The present study tests whether a retrograde temporal gradient and a change in the quality of memory specificity is confirmed when using a temporally less restrained access to autobiographical memory. Also, we intended to explore the temporal macrostructure of entire life narratives in AD and to study in more detail the distribution of memories across the past life and the narrativity of memory reports.

Method: Twenty-one elderly adults with mild to moderate AD (Mage = 79.0; M Mini-Mental State Exam = 20.6) were compared with 20 healthy controls (Mage = 76.15, M Mini-Mental State Exam = 29.2). Participants were ethnic Germans from a rural southwestern area of Germany. They provided five most important memories and then told their entire life for up to 15 min. Life narratives were divided into temporal-thematic segments, which were dated and coded for memory specificity as well as for proportion of narrative clauses (narrativity).

Results: Life narratives in AD were shorter and contained proportionally fewer specific memories and fewer narrative clauses. These differences regarded the remembered period from between mid-30s to the recent past, for which also far fewer memories were produced. Life narratives were less chronological.

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阿尔茨海默病患者和健康对照者生活故事记忆的时间组织和质量。

目的：通过要求在几个确定的生命周期内回忆特定数量的记忆，研究了阿尔茨海默病（AD）的自传式记忆。本研究测试了当使用时间限制较少的自传式记忆时，逆行时间梯度和记忆特异性质量的变化是否得到证实。此外，我们还试图探索AD患者一生叙事的时间宏观结构，并更详细地研究记忆在前世的分布和记忆报告的叙事性。方法：21例轻中度AD老年患者(Mage = 79.0；M = 20.6)与20名健康对照（法师= 76.15,M = 29.2）进行比较。参与者是来自德国西南部农村地区的德国人。他们提供了五个最重要的记忆，然后用15分钟讲述他们的整个生活。生活叙事被分为时间主题部分，这些部分被标注了日期，并根据记忆的特殊性和叙事从句的比例（叙事性）进行了编码。结果：AD患者的生活叙述较短，包含的特定记忆和叙述从句比例较少。这些差异涉及到从35岁左右到最近的记忆时期，这段时间产生的记忆也要少得多。生活叙事没有那么按时间顺序排列。结论：AD中的自我同一性越来越少地依赖于生活叙事，而更多地依赖于单一事件叙事。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Neuropsychology 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

4.20%

发文量

132

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Neuropsychology publishes original, empirical research; systematic reviews and meta-analyses; and theoretical articles on the relation between brain and human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral function.