Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory in Patients with Chronic Pain

Liu, Xianhua; Liu, Yanling; Li, Li; Hu, Yiqiu; Wu, Siwei; Yao, Shuqiao

doi:10.1111/pme.12355

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“…Interestingly, OAM are characteristic not only for people affected by depression, but they were also confirmed in patients with post‐traumatic stress disorder, among people considering suicide attempts, in patients with nutrition disorders, in people suffering from chronic pain and in people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder . The area of research over AM has been continuously expanding in recent years.…”

Section: Am In Recurrent Depressive Disordersmentioning

confidence: 90%

Autobiographical memory dysfunctions in depressive disorders

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Maes

et al. 2015

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Autobiographical memory (AM) is a ubiquitous human experience that belongs to long-term declarative memory. It plays interpersonal and intrapsychic functions. The main aim of this study is to present results of contemporary research on AM in recurrent depressive disorders. The available research literature suggests that AM dysfunctions are a precursor and risk factor for recurrent depressive disorders and that they also appear to be a consequence of depressive symptoms in a bidirectional and interacting manner. These data suggest that AM might be a viable therapeutic target for cognitive remediation strategies, given the impact of cognition on diverse clinical outcomes.

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Section: Am In Recurrent Depressive Disordersmentioning

confidence: 90%

Autobiographical memory dysfunctions in depressive disorders

Talarowska

Berk

Maes

et al. 2015

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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“…Following the Chinese version of the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) [26, 27], participants were asked to retrieve a specific memory to 12 given emotional cue words in Chinese. Cue words were presented orally in a fixed order, with six negative and six positive words alternating: guilty, successful, lonely, honest, sad, proud, horrible, brave, angry, interested, painful, and happy.…”

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Rumination mediates the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depression in patients with major depressive disorder

Liu

Yang

et al. 2017

BMC Psychiatry

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BackgroundOvergeneral autobiographical memory has been identified as a risk factor for the onset and maintenance of depression. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms that might explain overgeneral autobiographical memory phenomenon in depression. The purpose of this study was to test the mediation effects of rumination on the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depressive symptoms. Specifically, the mediation effects of brooding and reflection subtypes of rumination were examined in patients with major depressive disorder.MethodsEighty-seven patients with major depressive disorder completed the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Ruminative Response Scale, and Autobiographical Memory Test. Bootstrap mediation analysis for simple and multiple mediation models through the PROCESS macro was applied.ResultsSimple mediation analysis showed that rumination significantly mediated the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depression symptoms. Multiple mediation analyses showed that brooding, but not reflection, significantly mediated the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depression symptoms.ConclusionsOur results indicate that global rumination partly mediates the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder. Furthermore, the present results suggest that the mediating role of rumination in the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depression is mainly due to the maladaptive brooding subtype of rumination.

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“…An influential study by Redelmeier and Kahneman (1996) demonstrated that patients' memories of the amount of discomfort reported after an acute minimally invasive procedure was determined primarily by the intensity of pain at both the procedure's worst and most recent episodes, a phenomenon now known as the “peak-end rule”. Memory biases have also been documented in chronic pain patients, with evidence that long-term pain is remembered less accurately than acute pain ( Linton and Melin, 1982 ; Salovey and Smith, 1997 ) and that people with persistent pain report intensity of previous pain less accurately than healthy people ( Liu et al, 2014a ). These inaccuracies in the recall of spontaneous episodes of chronic pain can become worse over time and even impact memories of treatment efficacy ( Feine et al, 1998 ).…”

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Hippocampal morphology mediates biased memories of chronic pain

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Experiences and memories are often mismatched. While multiple studies have investigated psychological underpinnings of recall error with respect to emotional events, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the divergence between experiences and memories remain relatively unexplored in the domain of chronic pain. Here we examined the discrepancy between experienced chronic low back pain (CBP) intensity (twice daily ratings) and remembered pain intensity (n = 48 subjects) relative to psychometric properties, hippocampus morphology, memory capabilities, and personality traits related to reward. 77% of CBP patients exaggerated remembered pain, which depended on their strongest experienced pain and their most recent mood rating. This bias persisted over nearly 1 year and was related to reward memory bias and loss aversion. Shape displacement of a specific region in the left posterior hippocampus mediated personality effects on pain memory bias, predicted pain memory bias in a validation CBP group (n = 21), and accounted for 55% of the variance of pain memory bias. In two independent groups (n = 20/group), morphology of this region was stable over time and unperturbed by the development of chronic pain. These results imply that a localized hippocampal circuit, and personality traits associated with reward processing, largely determine exaggeration of daily pain experiences in chronic pain patients.

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Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory in Patients with Chronic Pain

Abstract: The retrieval of AM in patients with chronic pain tends to be overgeneral and delayed, and the retrieval style of AM may be contributed to negative emotions and chronic pain conditions.

Cited by 21 publications

References 22 publications

Autobiographical memory dysfunctions in depressive disorders

Autobiographical memory dysfunctions in depressive disorders

Rumination mediates the relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and depression in patients with major depressive disorder

Hippocampal morphology mediates biased memories of chronic pain

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