Timothy Williamson (2005a, 100 101) and John Hawthorne (2004, 109 110) raise related concerns about the preservation of information in memory and testimony.
Consistent with the known preservation of memory in dementia with Lewy bodies, subjects had significantly higher scores than Alzheimer's disease on the Cambridge Cognitive Examination memory subscore (P = 0.022), though significantly lower than control subjects (P < 0.001).
Consistent with the known relative preservation of memory in dementia with Lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer's disease, hippocampal connectivity was not found to be greater in dementia with Lewy bodies.
(Goldman 2009, 323, has a good discussion of memory preservation in relation to cases like that of the belief that Illinois was Lincoln's home state. Goldman also discusses problems that may arise for the memory preservation account).
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition in which subjects are usually only mildly impaired in memory with relative preservation of other cognitive domains and functional activities and do not meet the criteria for dementia [18], or as the prodromal state AD [19].
Consistent with relative preservation of memory function in DLB compared with AD, hippocampal connectivity was not found to be different in DLB compared to healthy controls.
Scholars struggle to preserve history by writing books, archivists create museums to raise consciousness, memoirists bear witness, reopening old wounds in the belief that in pain is the preservation of memory.
What finally enabled Mr. Guzmán to make "Nostalgia for the Light," which opens on Friday at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village, was his realization that the subjects he wanted to address did have a point in common: the preservation of memory.
In these studies, immunized APP transgenic animals showed markedly reduced Aβ deposition, preservation of normal neuronal structures, and improved performance in memory and spatial learning tasks.
