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Impact of Cognitive Priming on Alzheimer’s Disease

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 1424))

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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which spreads increasingly, and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is an early state of this disease. With the absence of efficient pharmacological treatment, non-pharmacological treatments may be the solution to slow down the progress of the disease. We propose a cognitive priming system in which we ask patients about several celebrity names and then we project the name of the forgotten ones. The projection is very fast (29 ms) in a way only the subconscious part of the patients’ brain could intercept it. Two experiments with different SCD patients have been done. In the first one, the participants received cognitive priming projections, and in the second one, as a control group, they did not. Results show that the cognitive priming method works with SCD patients and that we can restore some missing memory using this technique. In addition, results show that the effect of the cognitive priming can last 1 month or more.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge NSERC-CRD (National Science and Engineering Research Council Cooperative Research Development), PROMPT, and Beam Me Up for funding this work. Thanks to Alexie Byrns who contributed to the experiments. We also acknowledge the contributions of Sylvie Belleville and Marc Cuesta from IUGM (Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal).

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    Hamdi Ben Abdessalem & Claude Frasson

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Ben Abdessalem, H., Frasson, C. (2023). Impact of Cognitive Priming on Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2022. GeNeDis 2022. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1424. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31982-2_21

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