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Impact of autobiographical memory remediation
in patients schizophrenia
Marie Boulanger1*, Denis Collet2, Françoise Dussart2, Lidvine Cornet1, & Sylvie Blairy1
1University
of Liège, Belgium
2IHP
L’Espoir, Belgium
Introduction
- Schizophrenia is accompanied by deficit in autobiographical memories (AM). These patients instructed to recall a specific event
distinctly located in time and place actually recall an extended event or a category of repeated events ;
- These impairments are correlated to difficulties in imagining specific events that might happen to them in the future
Van-der-Linden, 2008)
(D’Argembeau, Raffard et
;
- The previous study suggested that the specific autobiographical memory (past and future) may be improved by an AM remediation
therapy
(Blairy & al., accepted).
Objective
The purpose of the present study was improved these deficits (specificity past and future events) in schizophrenia with a cognitive
remediation. This intervention was compared with IPT de Brenner
Method
(Pomini & al., 1998).
Results
The results showed :
- 2 groups;
- A meeting of 1 hour per week for 10 weeks for two
groups;
AM REMEDIATION THERAPY (N = 5)
The program proposed differents tasks to patients:
- a journal where they noted an event that took place
the day before;
- The execution of an individual project;
- Exercices to become better knew.
IPT (N = 3)
The patients have made the first module of the IPT:
Cognitive differentiation.
After and before the therapies, patients were asked to
completed TeMA for past and future (Neumann and
Philippot, unpublished).
•
that the participants tend to recall more specific events after
therapies (M = 2,69), confound ITP and AM Therapy,
compared to before therapies (M = 4), confounded pass and
future events, t(6) = 3.28, p = .013.;
•
No significative differences between the past and future
retrieval of specific memories before and after remediation in
autobiographical memory, but there is a tendancy (see table
1);
•
No difference between IPT group and AM remediation therapy
(see table 1).
Table 1. Mean Specificity to TeMA Before and
After Therapy.
PAST
TeMA
FUTURE
TeMA
PRE
POST
AM REMEDIATION
THERAPY
IPT
4
4
5.2
5.33
PRE
1
2
POST
3
2.33
Discussion
- Therapy seems to improve the retrieval of specific future and past autobiographical memories but the AM remediation therapy alone
do not improve retrieval and projection;
- These results are probably due to small sample;
- In addition, the AM remediation therapy has been refined and we currently study the validity of the revised version of this cognitive
intervention.
*Correspondence to adress to Marie Boulanger,
Departement of Cognitive Science, University of Liège,
Boulevard du Rectorat 3 (B33), 4000 Liège, Belgium.
E-mail: [email protected]
Reference
Blairy, S., Neumann, A., Nuttals, F., Pierret, L., Collet, D., & Philippot, P. (accepted). Improvement of Autobiographical Memory in Schizophrenia Patients
following a Cognitive Intervention. Psychopathology. D’Argembeau, A., Raffard, S., & Van der Linden, M. (2008). Remembering the past and imagining
the future in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(1), 247-251. Neumann, A., & Philippot, P. (unpublished). Tâche d’Evaluation de la
Mémoire Autobiographique : TeMA. Validation française de l’Autobiographical Memory Test. Pomini, Neis, Brenner, Hodel & Roder (1998). Thérapie
psychologique des schizophrénies. Liège, Belgium: Mardaga.