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Neuropsychological assessment of episodic memory Volume 9, issue 4, Octobre-Novembre-Décembre 2017

Authors
Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Research University, EPHE, Inserm, U1077, CHU de Caen, Neuropsychologie et imagerie de la mémoire humaine, 14000 Caen, France
* Correspondance

Episodic memory disorder is one of the most common neuropsychological symptom in numerous pathologies regardless of the etiology. Therefore, evaluating it represents a major interest in clinical neuropsychological evaluation. From the birth of this concept, numerous tasks were created to evaluate the anterograde component of memory by learning lists of words (or more rarely pictures). Gradually, these tasks were developed in order to match recent conceptions of memory. At first, we will present one of the most frequently used task of episodic memory, the Grober & Bushke's Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test with its positive and negative aspects. Then, we review some tasks recently published, which can compensate any limit of the classic Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test. We will then put the emphasis on the evaluation of the retrograde component of episodic memory and on prospective memory. This last type of memory represents one of the daily used component of episodic memory and is evaluated by tasks that seek to be more ecological.