Accelerated long-term forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia: an acquisition or consolidation deficit?

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Accelerated Long-term Forgetting (ALF) is the rapid loss of newly acquired memories over days to weeks despite normal retention at standard (~30 min) intervals. It has recently been described in association with epilepsy, particularly the syndrome of Transient Epileptic Amnesia (TEA). The cognitive mechanisms underlying ALF remain uncertain, but disruption either of memory acquisition or consolidation processes has been postulated. To arbitrate between these accounts, we reanalysed data from ...

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Authors: Hoefeijzers, S; Dewar, M; Della Sala, S; Zeman, A; Butler, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 1549-1555
• Publication date: 2013-07-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.017
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cognition Disorders; Statistics as Topic; Neuropsychological Tests; Analysis of Variance; Middle Aged; Epilepsy; Male; Memory Disorders; Mental Recall; Vocabulary; Verbal Learning; Acoustic Stimulation; Aged; Humans; Female; Recognition (Psychology); Time Factors