Assessment of memory functioning

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Narinder Kapur
Keyword(s):  
Memory Functioning

I Rate My Memory Quite Similar at Age 40 and at Age 70

GeroPsych ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Boo Johansson ◽  
Marcus Praetorius Björk ◽  
Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Keyword(s):  
Change Score ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Memory Decline ◽  
Memory Factor ◽  
Invariance Testing ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Memory Functioning ◽  
Acceptable Model ◽  
Score Model ◽  
Old Men

Abstract. In 1987, we administered a subjective memory questionnaire to 143 40-year-old men, and 30 years later 67 of them again responded to the same questionnaire at age 70. At the follow-up, we also instructed participants to answer the questionnaire in the same manner as they thought they did at age 40 and to perform a picture recognition and a public event test. We employed confirmatory factor analysis to model a latent subjective memory construct. A single-factor solution provided acceptable model fit to data (χ2(12) = 9.33, p = .68; χ2(12) = 10.48, p = .57) and a decent reliability at both ages for the subjective memory measurements (omega = .82 and .93, respectively). Our longitudinal invariance testing revealed only a partial weak invariance. We also fitted a latent change-score model to the data. As expected, participants on average rated their memory as poorer at age 70 than at 40. Those who reported better overall health and less anxiety reported less memory decline up to age 70. Notably, this was also the case for those who rated memory as worse at age 40. Higher stress and depression at age 70, however, were associated with worse subjective memory already at age 40. The correspondences between memory ratings and tests were low. The correlation between the subjective memory factors at age 40 and 70 was 0.58, while the correlation between the memory factor at age 70 and the retrospective subjective memory factor was 0.87. Our findings suggest that subjective memory is quite consistent, and that we are inclined to preserve the continuity of our own memory functioning over the adult lifespan.

Perceptual Organization Indices as Predictors for Memory Functioning

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maritza Figueroa ◽  
Jessie Morrow ◽  
Stephanie Levy ◽  
Colleen Shearer ◽  
Charles J. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Organization ◽  
Memory Functioning

Symptom Factors and Neuropsychological Performance in Collegiate Athletes with Chronic Concussion Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Guty ◽  
Kaitlin Riegler ◽  
Jessica Meyer ◽  
Alexa E Walter ◽  
Semyon M Slobounov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Cognitive Outcomes ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Memory Functioning ◽  
Postconcussion Symptoms ◽  
Symptom Predictors ◽  
Time Since Injury

Abstract Objective The present study explored the relationship between specific types of postconcussion symptoms and cognitive outcomes in student–athletes with chronic concussion symptoms. Method Forty student–athletes with chronic concussion symptoms were given a battery of neuropsychological tests and rated themselves on a variety of postconcussion symptoms, which included the following factors derived from prior work: Physical, Sleep, Cognitive, Affective, and Headache. Cognitive outcomes included performance on composites for the memory and attention/executive functioning speed tests, respectively. The following covariates were also explored: Sex, depression symptoms, number of previous concussions, and time since injury. Results Headache was the only individual symptom factor that significantly (p < .05) predicted worse attention/executive functioning performance. None of the symptom factors were significantly related to memory performance over and above the variable of time since injury, such that longer time since injury was related to worse memory performance. Conclusion Comparable to work examining symptom predictors of cognitive outcomes in acutely concussed samples, headache predicted worse attention/executive functioning performance. Additionally, we found that the longer athletes had been symptomatic since injury, the “worse” their memory functioning. Understanding how headache and the length of time an individual is symptomatic are related to cognitive outcomes can help inform treatment and recommendations for athletes with prolonged symptom recovery.

Memory and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM): Effects of childhood onset and severe hypoglycemia

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 509-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAMARA HERSHEY ◽  
SUZANNE CRAFT ◽  
NEIL BHARGAVA ◽  
NEIL H. WHITE
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Severe Hypoglycemia ◽  
Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Insulin Dependent Diabetes ◽  
Dependent Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Childhood Onset ◽  
Memory Functioning ◽  
Insulin Dependent

Previous studies of the neuropsychological consequences of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) have had mixed and often contradictory results, possibly due to the heterogeneity of the samples and neuropsychological measures, and a lack of specific hypotheses. In order to address this problem, we focused on the effect of severe hypoglycemia on memory functioning in a relatively homogeneous sample of childhood-onset IDDM patients. Given the deleterious effects of hypoglycemia on medial temporal lobe structures (e.g., hippocampus) and the relationship between medial temporal damage and declarative memory functioning, we hypothesized that those patients who had experienced severe hypoglycemia would demonstrate impaired declarative memory and spared nondeclarative memory functioning. Results of the study were generally consistent with this hypothesis, although some impact of hypoglycemia was observed on perceptual priming ability. (JINS, 1997, 3, 509–520.)

scholarly journals Prospective memory functioning among ecstasy/polydrug users: evidence from the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT)

2011 ◽  
Vol 215 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florentia Hadjiefthyvoulou ◽  
John E. Fisk ◽  
Catharine Montgomery ◽  
Nikola Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Test ◽  
Memory Functioning

The role of goals and affect in working memory functioning

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Linnenbrink ◽  
Allison M Ryan ◽  
Paul R Pintrich
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Functioning

Memory performance of geriatric and nongeriatric chronic schizophrenic patients: A cross-sectional study

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHERINE M. PUTNAM ◽  
PHILIP D. HARVEY
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Delayed Recall ◽  
Memory Impairments ◽  
Chronic Schizophrenic ◽  
Poor Outcome ◽  
Memory Functioning ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Delayed Recognition ◽  
Learning Test

Memory functioning has been studied extensively in nongeriatric schizophrenic patients, leading to the suggestion that schizophrenic patients manifest a “subcortical” pattern of memory deficits. Few previous studies examined very poor outcome patients with a chronic course of hospitalization. This study examined the association of age and global cognitive dysfunction with verbal and spatial learning and delayed recall, as well as examining differential impairments in delayed recall as compared to delayed recognition memory. Sixty-six chronic schizophrenic patients were studied, with 30 of these patients over the age of 65. Verbal (California Verbal Learning Test) and spatial (Biber Figure Learning Test) serial learning and delayed memory tests were administered. All aspects of memory functioning were correlated with estimates of global cognitive status. When global cognitive status was controlled, age effects were still found for the majority of the memory measures. Delayed recognition memory was not spared, being performed as poorly as delayed recall. In contrast to previous studies of better-outcome patients with schizophrenia, geriatric patients with chronic schizophrenia performed more poorly than nongeriatric patients. The lack of sparing of delayed recognition memory suggests that previous findings of specific recall memory deficit and a subcortical profile of memory impairments may apply to schizophrenic patients with less severe global cognitive impairments. These data suggest that poor-outcome patients may have a pattern of memory impairments that has some features in common with cortical dementia. (JINS, 1999, 5, 494–501.)

scholarly journals Metamemory and aging: Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire for elderly

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Sanz Simon ◽  
Renata Thomas Ávila ◽  
Gilson Vieira ◽  
Cássio Machado de Campos Bottino
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Memory Functioning ◽  
Brazilian Version ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Memory Questionnaire

ABSTRACT Metamemory measures provide subjective memory information and are relevant to investigate memory ability in aging. However, there is a lack of metamemory instruments available in Brazil. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ), which evaluates different dimensions of subjective memory functioning, such as Feelings, Abilities and Strategies used in everyday life. Methods: The MMQ was translated into Portuguese and administered to 30 Brazilian elderly subjects. The participants underwent cognitive tests, mood scales and metamemory instruments. Results: Analyses revealed good internal consistency (Cronbach's a coefficient ranged from 0.75 to 0.89) and test-retest validity for each MMQ dimensions (positive correlations between two applications ranged from 0.75 to 0.8). Convergent validity evidence for the MMQ was confirmed by significant positive correlations (0.47 to 0.68) with dimensions of the Metamemory in Adulthood scale (MIA) (i.e., the Ability, Control, Self-efficacy and Strategy dimensions). Discriminant validity revealed no associations between the MMQ and cognitive performance, suggesting a weak metamemory-objective memory correspondence. Moreover, there was a negative correlation between MMQ-Ability subscale scores and mood symptoms (-0.63 for anxious symptoms, and -0.54 for depressive symptoms); and the Brazilian MMQ was comparable with MMQ translations to other languages. Conclusion: The Brazilian MMQ exhibits good psychometric properties and appears promising for clinical and research purposes. Additional studies are needed to further examine the psychometric properties of the Brazilian MMQ in a larger sample.

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