PMID- 23993283 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141015 LR - 20140207 IS - 1973-8102 (Electronic) IS - 0010-9452 (Linking) VI - 51 DP - 2014 Feb TI - Cognitive and neuroimaging evidence of impaired interaction between self and memory in Alzheimer's disease. PG - 11-24 LID - S0010-9452(13)00170-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.06.009 [doi] AB - In human cognition, self and memory processes strongly interact, as evidenced by the memory advantage for self-referential materials [Self-Reference Effect (SRE) and Self-Reference Recollection Effect (SRRE)]. The current study examined this interaction at the behavioural level and its neural correlates in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Healthy older controls (HC) and AD patients performed trait-adjectives judgements either for self-relevance or for other-relevance (encoding phase). In a first experiment, the encoding and subsequent yes-no recognition phases were administrated in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner. Brain activation as measured by functional MRI (fMRI) was examined during self-relevance judgements and anatomical images were used to search for correlation between the memory advantage for self-related items and grey matter density (GMD). In a second experiment, participants described the retrieval experience that had driven their recognition decisions (familiarity vs recollective experience). The behavioural results revealed that the SRE and SRRE were impaired in AD patients compared to HC participants. Furthermore, verbal reports revealed that the retrieval of self-related information was preferentially associated with the retrieval of contextual details, such as source memory in the HC participants, but less so in the AD patients. Our imaging findings revealed that both groups activated the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) at encoding during self-relevance judgements. However, the variable and limited memory advantage for self-related information was associated with GMD in the lateral prefrontal cortex in the AD patients, a region supporting high-order processes linking self and memory. These findings suggest that even if AD patients engage MPFC during self-referential judgements, the retrieval of self-related memories is qualitatively and quantitatively impaired in relation with altered high-order processes in the lateral PFC. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Genon, Sarah AU - Genon S AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium. Electronic address: Sarah.Genon@ulg.ac.be. FAU - Bahri, Mohamed Ali AU - Bahri MA AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium. FAU - Collette, Fabienne AU - Collette F AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium. FAU - Angel, Lucie AU - Angel L AD - University Francois-Rabelais of Tours, UMR CNRS 7295 CeRCA, Tours, France. FAU - d'Argembeau, Arnaud AU - d'Argembeau A AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium; Department of Psychology, University of Liege, Belgium. FAU - Clarys, David AU - Clarys D AD - University of Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7295 CeRCA, Poitiers, France. FAU - Kalenzaga, Sandrine AU - Kalenzaga S AD - University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Salmon, Eric AU - Salmon E AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium; Memory Centre, CHU Liege, Belgium. FAU - Bastin, Christine AU - Bastin C AD - Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege, Belgium. Electronic address: Christine.Bastin@ulg.ac.be. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130702 PL - Italy TA - Cortex JT - Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior JID - 0100725 SB - IM CIN - Cortex. 2014 May;54:213-8. PMID: 24674099 MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Alzheimer Disease/physiopathology/*psychology MH - Brain Mapping/methods MH - Cognition/*physiology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods MH - Male MH - Memory/*physiology MH - Middle Aged MH - *Neuroimaging MH - Neuropsychological Tests MH - Self Concept OTO - NOTNLM OT - Alzheimer's disease OT - Memory OT - Recollection OT - Self-reference effect OT - fMRI EDAT- 2013/09/03 06:00 MHDA- 2014/10/16 06:00 CRDT- 2013/09/03 06:00 PHST- 2013/02/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/06/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/06/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/09/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/09/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/10/16 06:00 [medline] AID - S0010-9452(13)00170-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.06.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cortex. 2014 Feb;51:11-24. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.06.009. Epub 2013 Jul 2.