The Effectiveness of Item-Specific Encoding and Conservative Responding to Reduce False Memories in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease dementia are more susceptible to false memories than healthy older adults. Evidence that these patients can use cognitive strategies to reduce false memory is inconsistent.

Method

In the present study, we examined the effectiveness of conservative responding and item-specific deep encoding strategies, alone and in combination, to reduce false memory in a categorized word list paradigm among participants with mild Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD), amnestic single-domain mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy age-matched older controls (OCs). A battery of clinical neuropsychological measures was also administered.

Results

Although use of conservative responding alone tended to reduce performance in the MCI and OC g

SUBMITTER: Malone C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7873137 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature