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Memory Loss/Forgetfulness
Published in Charles Theisler, Adjuvant Medical Care, 2023
Causes for short-term memory problems include normal aging, different medical conditions, medications (e.g., antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and pain medications), mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Most medical conditions causing short-term memory loss can be improved with treatment.
Making a success of the three-part consultation
Published in Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Helen Stokes-Lampard, Consulting in a Nutshell, 2020
Roger Neighbour, Jamie Hynes, Helen Stokes-Lampard
Don't worry that if you store up the ideas that occur to you during the Patient's part, you might forget them if you leave it until the Doctor's part to mention them. If they are important ideas, you won't forget. Your short-term memory is well up to the task. If you seriously doubt it, you could always write yourself a discreet reminder on a notepad1.
Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Light of Ayurveda
Published in Atanu Bhattacharjee, Akula Ramakrishna, Magisetty Obulesu, Phytomedicine and Alzheimer’s Disease, 2020
Vinayak Majhi, Bishnu Choudhury, Sudip Paul
There are many symptoms common to all AD patients, although the progress of AD is different for each patient. Early symptoms are often mistakenly thought to be merely ‘age-related’ concerns or manifestations of stress (Essa et al. 2016). AD is characterized by memory impairment as a prominent and early feature, and more advanced AD presents as profound cognitive impairment, which leads to the patient becoming totally dependent (Tarawneh and Holtzman 2012). In the early stages, the most common symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events, commonly known as short-term memory loss. When the disease becomes more severe, many other symptoms, like confusion, irritability, aggression, mood swings, trouble with language, and long-term memory loss also become more prominent (Akula et al. 2011; Burns and Iliffe 2009; Ramakrishna et al. 2012; Ravishankar and Ramakrishna 2016).
Functional impact of bothersome tinnitus on cognitive test performance
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2021
LaGuinn P. Sherlock, Douglas S. Brungart
Bothersome tinnitus might also have a negative influence on working memory, although study results are mixed. Working memory is a complex system involving storage of information in short-term memory and subsequent manipulation of that information. Short-term memory requires the ability to sustain attention. It has been hypothesised that sustained attention to maintain or suppress information is required for working memory capacity (Engle 2002). Rossiter et al. (2006) reported poorer performance on a test of working memory in participants with tinnitus compared to an age- and hearing-matched control group without tinnitus. By contrast, Amaral and Langers (2015) did not find significant differences in working memory as measured by performance on visual and auditory one-back tasks between those with mild tinnitus and a control group without tinnitus. Given that performance on working memory tasks is not consistently different between people with and without tinnitus, we aimed to examine a component of working memory, specifically, short-term memory.
Time-of-day effects on objective and subjective short-term memory task performance
Published in Chronobiology International, 2021
Anna Ceglarek, Magdalena Hubalewska-Mazgaj, Koryna Lewandowska, Barbara Sikora-Wachowicz, Tadeusz Marek, Magdalena Fafrowicz
To conclude, our results demonstrated the diurnal and sex differences in objective and subjective performance of visual short-term memory task requiring holistic processing. As suggested in the paper by Fabbian et al. (2016) we incorporated chronotype and sex in the study, which allows us to state how important it is to consider the time-of-day, chronotype, as well as sex when designing subsequent psychological studies. Our study gets a deeper insight into the topic of short-term memory, introducing to higher cognitive processes. Moreover, it turns out that in the case of some cognitive tasks, it is extremely important to conduct analysis from the point of view of sex differences. The results of the current study revealed differences in the less explored areas like subjective indices of performance, and to this end it was crucial to employ an exploratory approach that allowed for deeper insight into the data. Our report highlights the importance of research on sex differences in the context of circadian rhythms as well as the use of self-assessment scales in behavioral analyses.
Evaluation of Visuospatial Short-term and Working Memory from the First to Second Year of Life: A Novel Task
Published in Developmental Neuropsychology, 2021
C. Fernandez-Baizan, Miguel Angel Prieto, J. A. Martinez, J. L. Arias, M. Mendez
Visuospatial memory refers to the ability to store and retrieve visual and spatial information (Baddeley, 1997). Short-term memory refers to a temporary store with a limited amount of visual information which lasts a short period of time, while long-term memory involves the retrieval of visual and spatial information months or even years later (Baddeley, 1997). Another function is the visuospatial working memory, based on the ability to maintain visuospatial information and manipulate or update it (Baddeley, 1997). This memory relies directly on the visual perception or the generation of a previously stored visual image, and it oversees the maintenance and manipulation of these images. Such visuospatial memory has been found impaired in neurological pediatric populations, for instance, Down syndrome (Godfrey & Lee, 2018), Williams syndrome (Bostelmann et al., 2017), cerebral palsy (Critten, Campbell, Farran, & Messer, 2018), prematurity (Cimadevilla, Roldán, París, Arnedo, & Roldán, 2014; Fernandez-Baizan, Alcantara-Canabal, et al., 2020) or fetal alcohol syndrome (Uecker & Nadel, 1998). Nevertheless, a deep knowledge about how spatial memory develops at early ages in typical development would be required to examine such at risk populations.