Involuntary Memories Investigation in Schizophrenia

Summary

Patients with schizophrenia suffer from autobiographical memory disorders. They have difficulty to remember vividly personal past events when they are specifically asked for. Indeed, this task requires a good executive functioning to retrieve precise information stored in long term memory. Interestingly, executive functioning has been showed impaired in schizophrenia and studies showed that their autobiographical memory impairments were directed related to their executive dysfunction.

Yet, in daily life people remember more often autobiographical memories spontaneously, without trying voluntarily to recall them.

In that case, the involuntary recall of personal past events is much less sustained by executive functioning.

In this protocol we would like to investigate and compare subjective characteristics of involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories in order to highlight the role of executive dysfunction in patients’ autobiographical memory impairments.

This sounds interesting. Although not diagnosed with sz my autobiographical memory is poor. There is some evidence linking autobiographical memory problems with Aphantasia(which I undoubtedly have) .

A third sub-group also makes good intuitive sense: many folk with aphantasia report that their autobiographical memory, for personal events like holidays and weddings, is less rich that that of their friends and relations: for most of us visualisation is a big part of recollection.

https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exeterblog/blog/2016/11/08/aphantasia-10000-people-make-contact-over-visual-imagery/

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Shouldn’t that be spelled “afantasia”?

If you’re Italian-yes .

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See that was something smart you aren’t dumb firemonkey.