Smell your memories: Positive effect of odor exposure on recent and remote autobiographical memories in Alzheimer's disease.

: There is a burgeoning interest in the effects of odor exposure on autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We pursued this line of research by assessing the effect of odor exposure on the retrieval of recent and remote memories in AD. : Twenty-six patients with mild AD and 28 controls were tested in two conditions: with and without odor exposure.

"To whom did I tell that information?": Relationship between destination memory and theory of mind in traumatic brain injury.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has been widely associated with impairment of social cognition. We therefore investigated the relationship between the ability to infer and predict other's mental states (i.e.

Cognitive Theory of Mind Influences Destination Memory: Evidence from Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.

Objective: Theory of mind and destination memory are social abilities that require processing the attributes of interlocutors. Empirical research has demonstrated a relationship between performance on both abilities in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD). We therefore investigated whether processing attributes of interlocutors would result in better destination memory in AD.

Impaired Specificity of Future Thinking in Alcohol Use Disorders.

Background: While there has been a body of work that has investigated past thinking in individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUD), little is known about future thinking in these individuals.

Methods: We invited participants with AUD and control participants to construct past and future events. We have also investigated the relationship between constructing past and future events and depression.

Off-track thoughts: Intentional and unintentional mind wandering in Alzheimer's disease.

Aim: Despite the recent upsurge of interest in mind wandering (i.e. the occurrence of task-unrelated and stimulus-independent thoughts), little research has attempted to evaluate mind wandering in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Autobiographical recall as a tool to enhance the sense of self in Alzheimer's disease.

We investigated whether autobiographical retrieval would improve the sense of self in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Participants with AD and controls were asked to produce statements describing their self, i.e.

Visual imagery: The past and future as seen by patients with Alzheimer's disease.

We investigated visual imagery for past and future thinking in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). We invited AD patients and controls to retrieve past events and to imagine future events. Participants also provided a "Field" response if they see the event through their own eyes, or an "Observer" response if they see themselves in the scene as a spectator would.

The CRIOAc healthcare network in France: A nationwide Health Ministry program to improve the management of bone and joint infection.

Background: Bone and joint infections (BJIs) have a major clinical and economic impact in industrialized countries. Its management requires a multidisciplinary approach, and a great experience for the most complicated cases to limit treatment failure, motor disability and amputation risk. To our best knowledge there is not currently national specific organization dedicated to manage BJI.

The shifting self in aging.

Background And Aims: This study investigated the ability of older adults to shift between self-images.

Methods: We designed a shifting-self task in which older adults and younger adults were invited to produce statements describing their physical self (e.g.

Recurrent maternal virilization during pregnancy in patients with PCOS: two clinical cases.

Background: Maternal virilization during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), luteoma and luteinic cysts are the most frequent and benign etiologies. This article presents two cases of recurrent maternal virilization during pregnancy.

Chunking to improve verbal forward spans in Korsakoff's syndrome.

Chunking is a mnemonic strategy that involves organizing information into appropriate units. Our article examined the use of this strategy on forward and backward span performance in Korsakoff's syndrome. Fifteen patients with Korsakoff's syndrome and 17 age-and-education matched healthy controls participated to the study.

Effects of olfactory stimulation on autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's disease.

Background: A body of research showed positive effects of olfactory stimulation on autobiographical memory. However, no research has evaluated the influence of such stimulation on autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's disease.

Objective And Methods: We invited participants with Alzheimer's disease and controls to retrieve autobiographical memories when exposed to odor and in a control condition without odor.

Clinical spectrum and short-term outcome of adult patients with purpura fulminans: a French multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: Data on purpura fulminans (PF) in adult patients are scarce and mainly limited to meningococcal infections. Our aim has been to report the clinical features and outcomes of adult patients admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) for an infectious PF, as well as the predictive factors for limb amputation and mortality.

Methods: A 17-year national multicenter retrospective cohort study in 55 ICUs in France from 2000 to 2016, including adult patients admitted for an infectious PF defined by a sudden and extensive purpura, together with the need for vasopressor support.

Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users.

Episodic future thinking refers to the ability to travel forward in time to pre-experience an event. Although future thinking has been intimately linked with self and identity, to our knowledge, no prior research has compared episodic future thinking in populations with different substance use disorders. This study investigates whether there are differences in episodic future thinking between these alcohol and opiate users.

Don't stare, unless you don't want to remember: Maintaining fixation compromises autobiographical memory retrieval.

This study has developed an original approach to the relationship between eye movements and autobiographical memory, by investigating how maintained fixation could influence the characteristics of retrieved memories. We invited participants to retrieve autobiographical memories in two conditions: while fixating a cross at the centre of a screen and while freely exploring the screen. Memories retrieved during the maintained fixation condition were less detailed and contained less visual imagery than those retrieved during the free-gaze condition.

Tell about yourself to improve your autobiographical memory: A study of Korsakoff's syndrome.

Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) has been associated with a difficulty to retrieve specific autobiographical memories. We investigated whether this difficulty can be alleviated after the retrieval of statements describing self-images. KS patients and control participants were recruited and asked to retrieve autobiographical memories after providing statements to the question "Who am I?" and after a control condition consisting of verbal fluency.

A review on future episodic thinking in mood and anxiety disorders.

Future episodic thinking refers to the ability to imagine oneself in the future and project oneself into specific future events. This cognitive process is related to decision making and planning for the future. Although healthy populations commonly project themselves into the future (e.

Relationships Between Confabulations and Mental Time Travel in Alzheimer's Disease.

The authors assessed the relationship between confabulations in Alzheimer's disease and the ability to mentally travel in time to reexperience memories. Twenty-seven patients with Alzheimer's disease were administered evaluations of provoked confabulations, spontaneous confabulations, and mental time travel. Provoked and spontaneous confabulations were evaluated with questions probing personal and general knowledge and with a scale rated by nursing and medical staff.

When your face describes your memories: facial expressions during retrieval of autobiographical memories.

Thanks to the current advances in the software analysis of facial expressions, there is a burgeoning interest in understanding emotional facial expressions observed during the retrieval of autobiographical memories. This review describes the research on facial expressions during autobiographical retrieval showing distinct emotional facial expressions according to the characteristics of retrieved memoires. More specifically, this research demonstrates that the retrieval of emotional memories can trigger corresponding emotional facial expressions (e.

Prospective evaluation of the management of urinary tract infections in 134 French nursing homes.

Objective: Prospective assessment of the management of urinary tract infections (UTI) in the nursing homes of the Hauts-de-France region.

Patients And Methods: A 50-question form had to be filled in for up to five consecutive residents treated for UTI in each nursing home. If necessary, diagnoses were reclassified according to the 2014 French Infectious Diseases Society guidelines.

Destination memory in traumatic brain injuries.

Destination memory, which is socially driven, refers to the ability to remember to whom one has sent information. Our study investigated destination memory in patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Patients and control participants were invited to tell proverbs (e.

Seeing life through rose-colored spectacles: Autobiographical memory as experienced in Korsakoff's syndrome.

We investigated whether patients with Korsakjoff's Sybdrome (KS) would demonstrate a discrepancy between (low) autobiographical specificity and (high) sense of reliving. We invited 20 KS patients and 24 controls to retrieve personal memories. After memory retrieval, they were invited to rate subjective characteristics of their recall (e.

Hallucinations in Alzheimer's disease: failure to suppress irrelevant memories.

Introduction: Research with patients with schizophrenia suggests that inhibitory dysfunction leads to the emergence of redundant or irrelevant information from long-term memory into awareness, and that this process may be involved in generating hallucinations. We investigated whether inhibitory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD) leads to hallucinations.

Method: AD participants and healthy matched controls were assessed with a hallucinations scale and a directed forgetting task.