
Earlier memories are relatively spared in dementia. Why?
People with Alzheimer’s have richer memories of late childhood and early adulthood and this could help therapeutic care
by Dorthe Berntsen
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dorthe Berntsen is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is director of the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research.