Neuropsychology of Amnesia Syndromes

Gianfranco Dalla Barba
INSERM

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in general neuropsychology, experimental psychology and neruosciences.

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 Course Description:

- The organization of normal memory: concepts of memory, memory systems and subsystems
- Amnesia syndromes and selective memory disorders
- Differential effects of age-related neurological diseases on memory systems and subsystems
- Neuropsychology of memory distortions I: Paramnesias
- Neuropsychology of memory distortions II: Confabulation
- Neuropsychology of memory distortions: III: False recognition
- Awareness in memory: recollection and familiarity, remembering and knowing
- Memory consciousness and temporality

Course Reading List

      Dalla Barba, G. (1993). Confabulation: knowledge and recollective experience.  Cognitive Neuropsychology, 10(1), 1-20.

      Dalla Barba, G. (1993). Different patterns of confabulation. Cortex, 29, 567-581.
   
      Dalla Barba, G., Parlato, V., Iavarone, A., & Boller, F. (1995). Anosognosia, intrusions and "frontal" functions in Alzheimer's disease and depression.                
             Neuropsychologia, 33(2), 247-259.

      Dalla Barba, G., & Wong, C. (1995). Encoding specificity and intrusions in Alzheimer's disease and amnesia. Brain and Cognition, 27, 1-16.

      Dalla Barba, G. (1997). Recognition memory and recollective experience in Alzheimer's disease. Memory, 5(6), 657-672.

      Dalla Barba, G., Mantovan, M. C., Ferruzza, E., & Denes, G. (1997). Remembering and knowing the past: a case study of isolated retrograde amnesia.                     Cortex,  33(1), 143-154.

      Dalla Barba, G., Cappelletti, Y. J., Signorini, M., & Denes, G. (1997). Confabulation: remembering "another" past, planning "another" future. Neurocase, 3,                     425-436.

      Dalla Barba, G., Mantovan, M. C., Cappelletti, Y. J., & Denes, G. (1998). Temporal gradient in confabulation. Cortex, 34, 417-426.
    
      Dalla Barba, G., Parlato, V., Jobert, A., Samson, Y., & Pappata, S. (1998). Cortical networks implicated in semantic and episodic memory. Cortex, 34,                        547-561.

      Dalla Barba, G., Bartolomeo, P., Ergis, A.-M., Boissé, M.-F., & Bachoud-Lévi, A.-C. (1999). Awareness of anosognosia. Neurocase, 5, 59-67.

      Dalla Barba, G., Nedjam, Z., & Dubois, B. (1999). Confabulation, executive functions and source memory in Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive                                        Neuropsychology,  16(3/4/5), 385-398.
 
      Dalla Barba, G. (2000). Memory, consciousness and temporality: what is retrieved and who exactly is controlling the retrieval? In E. Tulving (Ed.), Memory               and consciousness and the brain: The Tallin conference, (pp. 138-155). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

      Dalla Barba, G., & Rieu, D. (2001). Differential effects of aging and age-related neurological diseases on memory systems and subsystems. In F. Boller & J.                  Grafman (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, (pp. 97-118). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

       Dalla Barba, G. (2002). Memory, Consciousness and Temporality. Boston: Kluver Academic Publishers.

       Dalla Barba, G., Mantovan, M. C., Traykov, L., Rieu, D., Laurent, A., & Devouche, E. (2002). The functional locus of intrusions: Encoding or retrieval?                       Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 24(5), 633-641.