Realizing future actions requires that a person remembers what has to be executed and when it has to be carried out, both in the case of time and event based actions. Ten patients suffering from migraine were included in this pilot study. While performing traditional cognitive assessment patients were asked to execute time and event based PM tasks respectively at 1’ and 5’ time interval. An extended neuropsychological battery was administered to all subjects in two sessions in order to assess the role of attentional, executive and memory abilities of the participants. From this pilot study a specific pattern seems to arise, where migraine patients show marked difficulties on time based PM tasks. Prospective remembering difficulties appearing in this group of patients seem to rely on self-initiating processes and executive control of attentional resources rather than on memory deficits.
Time and event based prospective remembering in migraine patients.
SGARAMELLA, TERESA MARIA;
2005
Abstract
Realizing future actions requires that a person remembers what has to be executed and when it has to be carried out, both in the case of time and event based actions. Ten patients suffering from migraine were included in this pilot study. While performing traditional cognitive assessment patients were asked to execute time and event based PM tasks respectively at 1’ and 5’ time interval. An extended neuropsychological battery was administered to all subjects in two sessions in order to assess the role of attentional, executive and memory abilities of the participants. From this pilot study a specific pattern seems to arise, where migraine patients show marked difficulties on time based PM tasks. Prospective remembering difficulties appearing in this group of patients seem to rely on self-initiating processes and executive control of attentional resources rather than on memory deficits.
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