Memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease: implications for development of therapeutics
Open Access
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
- Vol. 8 (12), 1879-1891
- https://doi.org/10.1586/14737175.8.12.1879
Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease marked by a constellation of cognitive disturbances, the earliest and most prominent being impaired episodic memory. Episodic memory refers to the memory system that allows an individual to consciously retrieve a previously experienced item or episode of life. Many recent studies have focused on characterizing how AD pathology impacts particular aspects of episodic memory and underlying mental and neural processes. This review summarizes the findings of those studies and discusses the effects of current and promising treatments for AD on episodic memory. The goal of this review is to raise awareness of the strides that cognitive neuroscientists have made in understanding intact and dysfunctional memory. Knowledge of the specific memorial processes that are impaired in AD may be of great value to basic scientists developing novel therapies and to clinical researchers assessing the efficacy of those therapies.Keywords
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