Boosting Autobiographical Memory and the Sense of Identity of Alzheimer Patients Through Repeated Reminiscence Workshops

摘要: Despite severe amnesia, some studies showed that Alzheimer Disease (AD) patients with moderate to dementia keep a consistent, but impoverished representation of themselves, showing preservation the sense identity even at stages illness. Some suggest listening music can facilitate reminiscence autobiographical memories and stimulating memory would be relevant support self these patients. Consequently, we hypothesized repeated participation workshops, using excerpts familiar songs as prompts participate enrichment memories, self-representation identity. We included group 20 AD residing in nursing homes. Their performances were compared control matched (age, education, mood) healthy residents living same institutions. The experiment was conducted three phases over 2-week period. On phase 1, an individual assessment proposed each participant. 2, participants joined musical workshops (six sessions 2 weeks for 3 week controls). During third (12 days after first assessment), evaluation second proposed. Our results that, despite their massive amnesia syndrome, reached end number quality those controls. Moreover, confirmed continuity stable profile answers between assessments However, increase episodic not accompanied by In complementary study, new participated paradigm, movie extracts prompts, very similar effects. discuss all regard literature significant impact repetition on reactivation traces amnestic disease.