Access to Procedural Memories After One Year: Evidence for Robust Memory Consolidation in Tourette Syndrome.

ABSTRACT: Tourette syndrome is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics. On the neural level, tics are thought to be related to the disturbances of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops, which also play an important role in procedural learning. Several studies have investigated the acquisition of procedural information and the access to established procedural information in TS. Based on these, the notion of procedural hyperfunctioning, i.e., enhanced procedural learning, has been proposed. However, one neglected area is the retention of acquired procedural information, especially following a long-term offline period. Here, we investigated the 5-hour and 1-year consolidation of two aspects of procedural memory, namely serial-order and probability-

SUBMITTER: Toth-Faber E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8407083 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature