Objective and subjective memory impairment in elderly adults: a revised version of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire

Calabria, Marco; Manenti, Rosa; Rosini, Sandra; Zanetti, Orazio; Miniussi, Carlo; Cotelli, Maria

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“…Rather, some items would involve various cognitive domains like, visual perception (“failed to recognize, by sight, close friends or relatives”), attentional processing (“been unable to follow the thread of a story”), language production (“found that a word is on the tip of your tongue”) or Executive Functions (EF; “forgotten a change in your daily routine”). This may be the reason for what several studies have reported the existence of various latent factors on the EMQ structure (Cornish, 2000 ; Royle and Lincoln, 2008 ; Calabria et al, 2011 ). In any event, investigations using the EMQ with older adults have exclusively focused on the overall score (Alegret et al, 2015 ), and have not addressed the role of the specific underlying factors upon differentiation between healthy controls and people with MCI.…”

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Clinical Relevance of Specific Cognitive Complaints in Determining Mild Cognitive Impairment from Cognitively Normal States in a Study of Healthy Elderly Controls

Ávila-Villanueva

Rebollo-Vázquez

León

et al. 2016

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Introduction: Subjective memory complaints (SMC) in the elderly have been suggested as an early sign of dementia. This study aims at investigating whether specific cognitive complaints are more useful than others to discriminate Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) by examining the dimensional structure of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ).Materials and Methods: A sample of community-dwelling elderly individuals was recruited (766 controls and 78 MCI). The EMQ was administered to measure self-perception of cognitive complaints. All participants also underwent a comprehensive clinical and neuropsychological battery. Combined exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) were performed to identify the underlying structure of the EMQ. Furthermore, logistic regression analyses were conducted to study whether single cognitive complaints were able to predict MCI.Results: A suitable five-factor solution was found. Each factor focused on a different cognitive domain. Interestingly, just three of them, namely Forgetfulness of Immediate Information (FII), Executive Functions (EF) and Prospective Memory (PM) proved to be effective in distinguishing between cognitively healthy individuals and MCI. Based on these results we propose a shortened EMQ version comprising 10 items (EMQ-10).Discussion: Not all cognitive complaints have the same clinical relevance. Only subjective complaints on specific cognitive domains are able to discriminate MCI. We encourage clinicians to use the EMQ-10 as a useful tool to quantify and monitor the progression of individuals who report cognitive complaints.

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Clinical Relevance of Specific Cognitive Complaints in Determining Mild Cognitive Impairment from Cognitively Normal States in a Study of Healthy Elderly Controls

Ávila-Villanueva

Rebollo-Vázquez

León

et al. 2016

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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“…Some studies report an association between SMCs and objective memory ability (Calabria et al, 2011; Gagnon et al, 1994; Jonker, Launer, Hooijer, & Lindeboom, 1996) or cognitive decline (Jorm, Christensen, Korten, Jacomb, & Henderson, 2001; Wang et al, 2004). Yet other studies report no association (e.g., Clement, Belleville, & Gauthier, 2008; Smith, Petersen, Ivnik, Malec, & Tangalos, 1996).…”

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Prevalence and correlates of subjective memory complaints in Vietnamese adults

Meyer

Leggett

Liu

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Int. Psychogeriatr.

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“…Data from 64 older individuals (mean age=67.91 years) were included in the analysis. Participants [17,18] that serves as an easy-to-use instrument to evaluate subjective memory complaints (SMC) (see Table 1).…”

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The optimal timing of stimulation to induce long-lasting positive effects on episodic memory in physiological aging

Manenti

Sandrini

Brambilla

et al. 2016

Behavioural Brain Research

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Episodic memory displays the largest degree of age-related decline. A noninvasive brain stimulation technique that can be used to modulate memory in physiological aging is transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). However, an aspect that has not been adequately investigated in previous studies is the optimal timing of stimulation to induce long-lasting positive effects on episodic memory function. Our previous studies showed episodic memory enhancement in older adults when anodal tDCS was applied over the left lateral prefrontal cortex during encoding or after memory consolidation with or without a contextual reminder. Here we directly compared the two studies to explore which of the tDCS protocols would induce longer-lasting positive effects on episodic memory function in older adults. In addition, we aimed to determine whether subjective memory complaints would be related to the changes in memory performance (forgetting) induced by tDCS, a relevant issue in aging research since individuals with subjective memory complaints seem to be at higher risk of later memory decline. The results showed that anodal tDCS applied after consolidation with a contextual reminder induced longer-lasting positive effects on episodic memory, conceivably through reconsolidation, than anodal tDCS during encoding. Furthermore, we reported, providing new data, a moderate negative correlation between subjective memory complaints and forgetting when anodal tDCS was applied after consolidation with a contextual reminder. This study sheds light on the best-suited timing of stimulation to induce long-lasting positive effects on memory function and might help the clinicians to select the most effective tDCS protocol to prevent memory decline.

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Objective and subjective memory impairment in elderly adults: a revised version of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire

Abstract: ABSTRACT. Background and aims: Growing interest in understanding the relationship between subjective memory complaints (SMCs)

Cited by 38 publications

References 27 publications

Clinical Relevance of Specific Cognitive Complaints in Determining Mild Cognitive Impairment from Cognitively Normal States in a Study of Healthy Elderly Controls

Clinical Relevance of Specific Cognitive Complaints in Determining Mild Cognitive Impairment from Cognitively Normal States in a Study of Healthy Elderly Controls

Prevalence and correlates of subjective memory complaints in Vietnamese adults

The optimal timing of stimulation to induce long-lasting positive effects on episodic memory in physiological aging

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