Long-term forgetting in patients with traumatic brain injury

Verbal memory impairment has been described in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) but the specific altered process, between encoding, consolidation and retrieval, is still discussed. The aim of this study was to use new measures to detect verbal memory impairment in TBI patients. In this pur...

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Published in:Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine 2017-09, Vol.60, p.e45-e45
Main Authors: Manoli, Romina, Chartaux-Danjou, Laurence, Delecroix, Hélène, Daveluy, Walter, Moroni, Christine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1W-FCSRT
Consolidation
Long-term memory recall
TBI
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Summary:Verbal memory impairment has been described in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) but the specific altered process, between encoding, consolidation and retrieval, is still discussed. The aim of this study was to use new measures to detect verbal memory impairment in TBI patients. In this purpose, we analyzed encoding and consolidation processes as a function of each patient's performance during a memory test. We calculated a learning score and a percentage of forgetfulness. One-week Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (1W-FCSRT), which special feature relies on a 30-minutes and a one-week-delayed recall after encoding, was administered to 98 TBI patients (age range at the time of assessment from 20 to 56 years). Their performance was compared to performance of neurologically healthy volunteers matched for age, gender and socio-cultural level. A statistically significant difference was found between TBI patients and healthy volunteers for the learning score (W=7640.5, P
ISSN:1877-0657
1877-0665
DOI:10.1016/j.rehab.2017.07.054