Episodic memory tests with multiple learning-test trials are more sensitive than those with single learning test trial for the diagnosis of MCI [ 4- 9].
Test-retest reliability of the test battery was adequate, and alternate form reliability for episodic memory tests was supported.
Dubois' five-word test is an episodic memory test where subjects are asked to learn five words belonging to different semantic groups and lacking phonetic similarity (for example: beverage, cooking tool, vehicular, building and insect) with control of the encoding.
Learning a complex new skill can also lead to significant improvements in episodic memory tests.
This prospective, randomized, controlled trial in 153 male and female adult subjects, ages 18 99, with diagnosed and actively managed episodic migraine tests the efficacy, safety, and biochemical effects of targeted, controlled alterations in dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
Episodic memory tests had the highest potential to discriminate with almost twice the predictive power of any other domain.
Some case-report studies have found that grapheme-color synesthetes performed above average in visual search tasks and some single-case studies have also reported superior performance in episodic memory tests.
These changes seem to differ from those found using standard episodic memory tests.
A correlation between the score in episodic memory tests and changes in hippocampal volume is theoretically plausible, due to the importance of the hippocampus in episodic memory.
Previous studies have shown that episodic memory tests such as paragraph recall are sensitive to MCI and very early cognitive impairment in older adults [ 8].
