In a world where the proportion of elderly is drastically increasing each year, dementia has become a major public health issue. For example, according to the World Health Organization, in 2025, 22 million of people could be affected by Alzheimer’s Read More
Memory impairments are a core feature of the cognitive profile in schizophrenia. Among these deficits, illusions, confabulations, especially false memories are observed. False memories relate to either remembering events that never happened or remembering them quite differently from the way Read More
This chapter is extracted from the book entitled « Memory and Emotion, The making of lasting memories » by McGaugh (2003). The field of his book is larger and many researchers have studied the impact of emotions on our memory accuracy Read More