Objective The most widely studied positron emission tomography ligand for in vivo β‐amyloid
imaging is 11 C‐Pittsburgh compound B ( 11 C‐PIB). Its availability, however, is limited by …

Three sets of research criteria are available for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in subjects
with mild cognitive impairment: the International Working Group-1, International Working …

Whether the format of a recognition memory task influences the contribution of recollection
and familiarity to performance is a matter of debate. The authors investigated this issue by …

Memory consolidation benefits from sleep. In addition to strengthening some memory traces,
another crucial, albeit overlooked, function of memory is to erase irrelevant information. …

… CHRISTINE BASTIN is assistant professor and research associate of the Fonds National
de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS) at the University of Liège. She obtained her PhD in …

In normal aging, memory for associations declines more than memory for individual items.
Unitization is an encoding process defined by creation of a new single entity to represent a …

Some patients with relatively selective hippocampal damage have shown proportionate recall
and recognition deficits. Moreover, familiarity as well as recollection have been found to …

There is a great deal of heterogeneity in the impact of aging on cognition and cerebral
functioning. One potential factor contributing to individual differences among the elderly is the …

Purpose Loss of brain synapses is an early pathological feature of Alzheimer’s disease. The
current study assessed synaptic loss in vivo with positron emission tomography and an 18F-…

The present study examined how aging influences item and associative recognition memory,
and compared memory for two types of associations: associations between the same kinds …