Memory impairment exhibited by veterans with Gulf War Illness

Timothy N. Odegard; Crystal M. Cooper; Emily A. Farris; Josh Arduengo; James Bartlett; Robert Haley

doi:10.1080/13554794.2012.667126

Memory impairment exhibited by veterans with Gulf War Illness

Timothy N. Odegard, Crystal M. Cooper, Emily A. Farris, Josh Arduengo, James Bartlett, Robert Haley

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Abstract

Roughly 26-32% of US veterans, who served in the first Gulf War, report suffering from chronic health problems (Golomb, 2008, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 105, 4295). The present study investigated the memory deficits reported by these ill Gulf War veterans (GWV) using a face-name associative memory paradigm administered during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The fMRI data confirmed memory performance on the memory task to be related to the amount of activation in the left hippocampus observed during the study. In addition, ill-GWV demonstrated decreased memory performance relative to unaffected GWV on this memory test, providing evidence of memory deficits using an objective measure of memory.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	316-327
Number of pages	12
Journal	Neurocase
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2012.667126
State	Published - Aug 2013

Keywords

Associative memory
Covert recall
Feelings of knowing
Gulf War Illness
Hippocampus
Memory

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Clinical Neurology

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