Laura C Marsh

King's College London · IoPPN

Individuals with depression typically remember their past in a generalised manner, at the cost of retrieving specific event memories. This may impair engagement with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tasks that use concrete episodic information to challenge maladaptive beliefs, potentially limiting their therapeutic benefit. Study 1 demonstrated...

Objectives/Aims Dissociative amnesia refers to loss of autobiographical memory with a presumed psychological, rather than neurological cause. The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the memory loss are not fully understood. One theory suggests that prefrontal control mechanisms ‘block’ access to autobiographical memories. A parallel body of experi...

Individuals with depression typically remember their past in a generalised manner, at the cost of retrieving specific event memories. This may impair engagement with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tasks that use concrete episodic information to challenge maladaptive beliefs, potentially limiting their therapeutic benefit. Study 1 demonstrated...

Inhibitory control is a fundamental process that enables suppression of representations or processes that interfere with ongoing cognition and behavior. This chapter reviews the role of such control processes in causing forgetting from long-term memory. We consider several functional contexts that trigger inhibitory control, including the need to s...

Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) refers to the tendency towards increased general memory and reduced specific memory recall, observed in various psychiatric disorders. Previous studies have suggested that inhibitory processes involved in resolving competition between competing memories may reduce memory specificity via retrieval-induced fo...

Objectives Our aim was to compare neuropsychological and psychiatric outcomes across three encephalitis aetiological groups: Herpes simplex virus (HSV), other infections or autoimmune causes (Other), and encephalitis of unknown cause (Unknown). Methods Patients recruited from NHS hospitals underwent neuropsychological and psychiatric assessment in...

The term ‘autobiographical memory’ refers to the recollec- tion of personal facts, episodes and incidents. It can be affected in various ways in clinical disorders, both neurological and psychological. In this paper, examples of ‘anomalies’ in autobiographical memory are discussed in the context of current explanatory theories. Retrograde amnesia (...

Positivity biases in autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking are considered important in mental wellbeing and are reduced in anxiety and depression. The inhibitory processes underlying retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) have been proposed to contribute to these biases. This investigation found reduced positivity in past and future thin...

The term ‘autobiographical memory’ refers to the recollection of personal facts, episodes and incidents. It can be affected in various ways in clinical disorders, both neurological and psychological. In this paper, examples of ‘anomalies’ in autobiographical memory are discussed in the context of current explanatory theories. Retrograde amnesia (RA...