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Titel: | Exploration of a novel virtual environment improves memory consolidation in ADHD |
Autor(en): | Baumann, Valentin Birnbaum, Thomas Breitling-Ziegler, Carolin Tegelbeckers, Jana Dambacher, Johannes Edelmann, Elke ![]() Bergado Acosta, Jorge R. ![]() Flechtner, Hans-Henning Krauel, Kerstin ![]() |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Art: | Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:ma9:1-1981185920-365416 |
Schlagwörter: | ADHD Memory Novel virtual environments |
Zusammenfassung: | Experimental evidence in rodents and humans suggests that long-term memory consolidation can be enhanced by the exploration of a novel environment presented during a vulnerable early phase of consolidation. This memory enhancing effect (behavioral tagging) is caused by dopaminergic and noradrenergic neuromodulation of hippocampal plasticity processes. In translation from animal to human research, we investigated whether behavioral tagging with novelty can be used to tackle memory problems observed in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 34 patients with ADHD and 34 typically developing participants (age 9–15 years) explored either a previously familiarized or a novel virtual environment 45 min after they had learned a list of 20 words. Participants took a free recall test both immediately after learning the word list and after 24 h. Patients who explored a familiar environment showed significantly impaired memory consolidation compared to typically developing peers. Exploration of a novel environment led to significantly better memory consolidation in children and adolescents with ADHD. However, we did not observe a beneficial effect of novel environment exploration in typically developing participants. Our data rather suggested that increased exploration of a novel environment as well as higher feelings of virtual immersion compromised memory performance in typically developing children and adolescents, which was not the case for patients with ADHD. We propose that behavioral tagging with novel virtual environments is a promising candidate to overcome ADHD related memory problems. Moreover, the discrepancy between children and adolescents with and without ADHD suggests that behavioral tagging might only be able to improve memory consolidation for weakly encoded information. |
URI: | https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/36541 http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36308 |
Open-Access: | ![]() |
Nutzungslizenz: | ![]() |
Sponsor/Geldgeber: | DFG-Publikationsfonds 2020 |
Journal Titel: | Scientific reports |
Verlag: | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
Verlagsort: | [London] |
Band: | 10 |
Heft: | 2020 |
Originalveröffentlichung: | 10.1038/s41598-020-78222-4 |
Seitenanfang: | 1 |
Seitenende: | 15 |
Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | Medizinische Fakultät (OA) |
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Baumann et al._Exploration_2020.pdf | Zweitveröffentlichung | 1.77 MB | Adobe PDF | ![]() Öffnen/Anzeigen |