M. El Alaoui Faris

Adaptation and standardization of the free and cued selective reminding test to the Moroccan population

The significant and progressive impairment of episodic memory supported by reliable neuropsychological testing is an essential criterion for the diagnosis of probable Alzheimers disease. Indeed, the Free and Cued Selective Reminding test keeps a vital role to diagnose the nature of memory impairment and it currently remains the most relevant clinical practice in neuropsychological tests assessing of episodic memory because it can control the process of encoding and retrieval based on the principle of encoding specificity that Tulving and Thomson have introduced. The goal of our work is to describe the adaptation and standardization of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding test to the Moroccan population, taking into account its different sociolinguistic variables. The sample consisted of 170 normal participants, aged between 18 and 83 years. Normative data from this study showed that memory performance of subjects depend on the age and level of education while sex has no significant influence on them.