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Evidence for a pervasive autobiographical memory impairment in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia.

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Foxe, David 
El-Omar, Hashim 
Ahmed, Rebekah M 
Hodges, John R 

Abstract

Although characterized primarily as a language disorder, mounting evidence indicates episodic amnesia in Logopenic Progressive Aphasia (LPA). Whether such memory disturbances extend to information encoded pre-disease onset remains unclear. To address this question, we examined autobiographical memory in 10 LPA patients, contrasted with 18 typical amnestic Alzheimer's disease and 16 healthy Control participants. A validated assessment, the Autobiographical Interview, was employed to explore autobiographical memory performance across the lifespan under free and probed recall conditions. Relative to Controls, LPA patients showed global impairments across all time periods for free recall, scoring at the same level as disease-matched cases of Alzheimer's disease. Importantly, these retrieval deficits persisted in LPA, even when structured probing was provided, and could not be explained by overall level of language disruption or amount of information generated during autobiographical narration. Autobiographical memory impairments in LPA related to gray matter intensity decrease in predominantly posterior parietal brain regions implicated in memory retrieval. Together, our results suggest that episodic memory disturbances may be an under-appreciated clinical feature of LPA.

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Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Episodic memory, Parietal, Primary progressive aphasia, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Alzheimer Disease, Amnesia, Aphasia, Female, Gray Matter, Healthy Volunteers, Humans, Male, Memory, Episodic, Mental Recall, Middle Aged, Young Adult

Journal Title

Neurobiol Aging

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0197-4580
1558-1497

Volume Title

108

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Elsevier BV