Alzheimer's disease and implicit memory

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Sergio Machado²  Marlo Cunha²  Daniel Minc²  Claudio Elidio Portella²  Bruna Velasques²  Luis F. Basile¹  Maurício Cagy¹  Roberto Piedade²  Pedro Ribeiro² 

[1] ,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Institute of Psychiatry Rio de Janeiro RJ ,Brazil

关键词: activities of daily living;    Alzheimer's disease;    cognitive rehabilitation;    implicit memory;    atividades da vida diária;    doença de Alzheimer;    memória implícita;    reabilitação cognitiva;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2009000200034

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Specific neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) affect some forms of memory while leaving others relatively intact. In this review, we investigate particularities of the relationship between explicit and implicit memories in AD. It was found that implicit memory is preserved in AD, irrespective of the task used; in other words, there was not interference from explicit memory. In addition, it was verified that is possible through implicit memory compensatory strategies such as, activities of daily living (ADL) to compensate for the explicit memory deficits. In this sense, cognitive rehabilitation (CR) demonstrates reasonable results in the process of compensation of explicit memory deficits. Concluding, the decline in explicit memory suggests that both systems are functionally independent even if the other is compromised. We expect that when explicit memory system is not involved in competition with the implicit system, the final effect of learning is better, because all of the implicit memory capacity is engaged in learning and not in competition with the explicit system.

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