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Waisman A, Katz J. The autobiographical memory system and chronic pain: A neurocognitive framework for the initiation and maintenance of chronic pain. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 162:105736. [PMID: 38796124 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/28/2024]
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Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of the world's population, exerting a substantial burden on the affected individual, their families, and healthcare systems globally. Deficits in autobiographical memory have been identified among individuals living with chronic pain, and even found to pose a risk for the transition to chronicity. Recent neuroimaging studies have simultaneously implicated common brain regions central to autobiographical memory processing in the maintenance of and susceptibility to chronic pain. The present review proposes a novel neurocognitive framework for chronic pain explained by mechanisms underlying the autobiographical memory system. Here, we 1) summarize the current literature on autobiographical memory in pain, 2) discuss the role of the hippocampus and cortical brain regions including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, anterior temporal lobe, and amygdala in relation to autobiographical memory, memory schemas, emotional processing, and pain, 3) synthesize these findings in a neurocognitive framework that explains these relationships and their implications for patients' pain outcomes, and 4) propose translational directions for the prevention, management, and treatment of chronic pain.
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- Anna Waisman
- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Vannucci M, Chiorri C, Pelagatti C, Favilli L. Semantic Self-Images and Well-Being in Young and Older Adults: Does the Accessibility Matter? Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12060716. [PMID: 35741600 PMCID: PMC9221324 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12060716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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In the present study we investigated whether and how age group, dimensions of well-being and their interactions predicted the phenomenological properties of semantic self-images, taking also into account the different levels of accessibility of self-images (i.e., order of generation). Results on the first self-image revealed that, independently of age, higher levels of life satisfaction predicted higher likelihood of positive than negative statement and higher levels of negative affect and life satisfaction predicted higher levels of personal relevance of the self-image. When all self-images were considered, for higher levels of life satisfaction neutral and positive self-images were more likely than negative ones, and for lower levels of positive affect, neutral images were more likely than negative ones. Moreover, young adults were more likely than older adults to report neutral rather than negative self-images and, for higher levels of positive affect, they were more likely to report neutral and positive images instead of negative ones. These results suggest that the accessibility of semantic self-images should be taken into account in the investigation of the complex association between well-being and semantic self-images. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
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- Manila Vannucci
- Department of NEUROFARBA, Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Via San Salvi 12, Padiglione 26, 50135 Florence, Italy;
- Correspondence: (M.V.); (C.C.); Tel.: +39-055-2055863 (M.V.); +39-010-20953709 (C.C.); Fax: +39-055-6236047 (M.V.); +39-010-20953728 (C.C.)
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- Department of Educational Sciences—Psychology Unit, University of Genoa, Corso Podestà 2, 16128 Genova, Italy
- Correspondence: (M.V.); (C.C.); Tel.: +39-055-2055863 (M.V.); +39-010-20953709 (C.C.); Fax: +39-055-6236047 (M.V.); +39-010-20953728 (C.C.)
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- Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy;
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- Department of NEUROFARBA, Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Via San Salvi 12, Padiglione 26, 50135 Florence, Italy;
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Sullivan KL, Sheppard DP, Johnson B, Thompson JL, Medina LD, Neighbors C, Hasbun R, Morgan EE, Loft S, Woods SP. Future and past autobiographical memory in persons with HIV disease. Neuropsychology 2021; 35:461-471. [PMID: 34292009 DOI: 10.1037/neu0000727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Objective: While HIV disease is associated with impairment in declarative memory, the ability of people with HIV (PWH) to describe past and future autobiographical events is not known. Method: Participants included 63 PWH and 28 seronegative individuals ages 50-78 who completed standardized neurocognitive and everyday functioning assessments. Participants described four events from the recent past and four imagined events in the near future, details from which were classified as internal or external to the main event. Result: PWH produced fewer autobiographical details with small-to-medium effect sizes but did not differ from seronegative participants in meta-cognitive ratings of their performance. Performance of the study groups did not vary across past or future probes or internal versus external details; however, within the entire sample, past events were described in greater detail than future events, and more external than internal details were produced. Within the PWH group, the production of fewer internal details for future events was moderately associated with poorer prospective memory, executive dysfunction, and errors on a laboratory-based task of medication management. Conclusion: Older PWH may experience difficulty generating autobiographical details from the past and simulated events in the future, which may be related to executive dyscontrol of memory processes. Future studies might examine the role of future thinking in health behaviors such as medication adherence and retention in healthcare among PWH. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia
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Chmielewski F, Hanning S, Swidder-Darku J, Ueberberg B, Juckel G, Mavrogiorgou P. Heldentum gegen Todesangst und Psychopathologie: “Selbstwert” als protektiver Faktor in der ambulanten Psychotherapie. VERHALTENSTHERAPIE 2019. [DOI: 10.1159/000503979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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<b><i>Hintergrund:</i></b> Die Befunde der bisherigen Untersuchungen legen nahe, dass die Angst vor dem Tod ein wichtiger Faktor bei der Entstehung psychischer Erkrankungen ist. Insbesondere die Terror-Management-Theorie geht davon aus, dass Menschen zwei verschiedene Strategien anwenden, um mit Todesangst umzugehen: (1) Sie versuchen, ihren Selbstwert zu steigern; (2) sie halten die Werte ihrer Kultur hoch. <b><i>Patienten und Methoden:</i></b> Im Rahmen einer prospektiven Studie wurden 56 ambulante Psychotherapie-Patienten (29 Frauen, Alter 42,8 Jahre, SD 13,8) vornehmlich mit depressiven Störungen mittels Interview/Fragebögen u.a. zu Angst vor dem Tod (BOFRETTA) sowie Religiosität untersucht. <b><i>Ergebnisse:</i></b> Die Angst vor dem Tod korrelierte signifikant mit der Schwere der psychischen Symptomatik (BDI), Neurotizismus (NEO-FFI) sowie dem Hochhalten kultureller Werte (LeBe). Erwartungsgemäß zeigte sich ein signifikanter negativer Zusammenhang von Selbstwert und Angst vor dem Tod. Dieser zeigte sich nicht bei Vergleichsvariablen wie Lebenssinn, Religiosität und Spiritualität. <b><i>Diskussion und Schlussfolgerungen:</i></b> Die Angst vor dem Tod spielt bei der Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung psychischer Probleme eine wesentliche Rolle. Ein wichtiger protektiver Faktor gegen diese scheint das Selbstwertgefühl zu sein. Es lässt sich vermuten, dass das Hochhalten kultureller Werte zwar ein unbewusster Versuch ist, gegen die Angst vor dem Tod (und die psychische Symptomatik) vorzugehen, dieser allerdings nicht wirksam ist.
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Jobson L, Miskon N, Dalgleish T, Hitchcock C, Hill E, Golden AM, Zulkefly NS, Mukhtar F. Impact of culture on autobiographical life structure in depression. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2018; 57:382-396. [PMID: 29572886 DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 02/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Distortions in autobiographical memory have been implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD). Those with MDD demonstrate a 'depressogenic' autobiographical life structure. Research has not examined how culture influences this process. We investigated whether Malay individuals (members of an interdependent culture) with MDD demonstrated a 'depressogenic' autobiographical life structure similar to that of British individuals (members of an independent culture) with MDD. DESIGN A 2 (Culture; Malay, British) × 2 (Mood; depressed, control) cross-sectional design using a card sort task and self-report measures was used. METHODS Malay individuals with MDD or no history of MDD completed the life-structure card-sorting task, which provided a novel method for investigating organizational structure of the life narrative. These data were compared to previously collected data in which British individuals with MDD or without MDD had completed the same task within the same experimental protocol. RESULTS Pan-culturally those with MDD had greater negativity (i.e., used more negative attributes), negative redundancy (i.e., used the same negative attributes repeatedly across life chapters) and negative emodiversity (i.e., had greater variety and relative abundance of negative attributes), and reduced positive redundancy (i.e., used the same positive attributes repeatedly across chapters) in their structuring relative to controls. While the British MDD group had greater compartmentalization (i.e., the negative and positive attributes were clustered separately across different chapters) than British controls, the Malay MDD group had lower levels of compartmentalization than Malay controls. CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest culture may shape aspects of the autobiographical life structure in MDD. PRACTITIONER POINTS The majority of the literature investigating depression pertains to individuals from European Western cultures, despite recognition that depression ranks as one of the most debilitating diseases worldwide. This raises questions as to whether current depression models and interventions can be applied universally or whether they are limited to European Western groups. The current study found that pan-culturally those with MDD had similar structuring of their life story relative to controls. However, there were some cultural differences that need to be considered (e.g., Malay individuals provided less detailed, less elaborate and less emotionally diverse life stories and while the British MDD group had greater compartmentalization than British controls, the Malay MDD group had lower levels of compartmentalization than Malay controls). Limitations of the study included group differences in gender and mood at the time of testing. Cultural differences in the number of attributes used may have influenced findings. Only the Malay group completed the individualism-collectivism measure.
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- Laura Jobson
- Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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Barry TJ, Lenaert B, Hermans D, Raes F, Griffith JW. Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Exposure to Trauma. J Trauma Stress 2018. [PMID: 29513912 DOI: 10.1002/jts.22263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Cognitive models of emotional disorders suggest that reduced autobiographical memory specificity that results from exposure to traumatic events may play an important role in the aetiology and maintenance of these disorders. However, there has yet to be a comprehensive meta-analysis of the association between trauma exposure and memory specificity, and the role of posttraumatic stress symptoms on this association. We searched PsycINFO and MEDLINE databases and extracted data from studies regarding the mean number or proportion of specific memories that participants with and without trauma exposure recalled on the Autobiographical Memory Test. We also extracted data on differences between groups in terms of posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms, along with data on trauma timing and participants' ages at the time of assessment. The effect size of memory specificity between participants with and without exposure to trauma was large, d = 0.77, and differed significantly from zero, p < .001. In metaregression, trauma timing was a significant predictor of the heterogeneity in trauma-exposure specificity effect sizes, but posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms were not. Compromised memory specificity represents an important cognitive consequence of trauma exposure that might have an important influence on risk for, and maintenance of, subsequent emotional pathologies.
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- Tom J Barry
- Experimental Psychopathology Lab, Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.,The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Netherlands
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- Centre for Learning Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Learning Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Billoux S, Voltzenlogel V, Telmon N, Birmes P, Arbus C. Peritraumatic Assessment of Autobiographical Memory After Exposure to a Traumatic Event. J Trauma Stress 2017; 30:666-671. [PMID: 29178535 DOI: 10.1002/jts.22229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 07/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly acknowledged to be associated with reduced specificity of autobiographical memory (AM). However, very few studies have assessed AM in the peritraumatic phase. The aim of the present study was to examine whether the AM impairment reported in PTSD is present a few days after a traumatic event. We assessed AM in 41 participants who had recently been exposed to trauma, and 34 controls who had never experienced a traumatic situation. The trauma-exposed participants also completed the Impact of Event Scale-R (IES-R), the Inventory of Peritraumatic Distress, and the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire. Results showed that autobiographical memories cued by negative words were significantly less specific in the group of trauma-exposed participants than in the control group (p = .008; d = 0.40). Thus, mild AM impairment was already present three days after trauma exposure, long before acute PTSD set in.
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- Sophie Billoux
- Toulouse Neuroimaging Center, University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Forensic Medicine Department, Rangueil Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse Neuroimaging Center, University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse Neuroimaging Center, University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Rathbone CJ, Moulin CJA. Exploring Memories of the Self: 2412 Self-image Norms for Adults Aged 17 to 88. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1445. [PMID: 28878727 PMCID: PMC5572507 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Clare J. Rathbone
- Department of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health, Oxford Brookes UniversityOxford, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Clare J. Rathbone
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- LPNC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5015, Université Pierre Mendès FranceGrenoble, France
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Emotional specificities of autobiographical memory after breast cancer diagnosis. Conscious Cogn 2015; 35:42-52. [DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Revised: 04/03/2015] [Accepted: 04/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Grilli MD, Verfaellie M. Supporting the self-concept with memory: insight from amnesia. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2015; 10:1684-92. [PMID: 25964501 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We investigated the extent to which personal semantic memory supports the self-concept in individuals with medial temporal lobe amnesia and healthy adults. Participants completed eight 'I Am' self-statements. For each of the four highest ranked self-statements, participants completed an open-ended narrative task, during which they provided supporting information indicating why the I Am statement was considered self-descriptive. Participants then completed an episodic probe task, during which they attempted to retrieve six episodic memories for each of these self-statements. Supporting information was scored as episodic, personal semantic or general semantic. In the narrative task, personal semantic memory predominated as self-supporting information in both groups. The amnesic participants generated fewer personal semantic memories than controls to support their self-statements, a deficit that was more pronounced for trait relative to role self-statements. In the episodic probe task, the controls primarily generated unique event memories, but the amnesic participants did not. These findings demonstrate that personal semantic memory, in particular autobiographical fact knowledge, plays a critical role in supporting the self-concept, regardless of the accessibility of episodic memories, and they highlight potential differences in the way traits and roles are supported by personal memory.
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- Matthew D Grilli
- Memory Disorders Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Memory Disorders Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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