mnetique

English translation: [of] memory

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French term or phrase:	mnétique
English translation:	[of] memory
Entered by:	Rachel Fell

11:03 Aug 6, 2006

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Medical - Medical: Health Care / further answers to survey on effects and use of antipsychotic drugs

French term or phrase: mnetique

This is quite clearly written, and I have found references on the web to 'mnetic' as a term in physics, but haven't managed to find it in reference to cognitive capacities.
Context: (about primary negative symptoms)

'Perte de capacites cognitives (noetiques,
XXX mnetiques XXX) pauvrete ideique et relationnelle, retrait affectif et social.'

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memory

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I think we would use simpler terms in English

The cognitive function most likely to be affected appears to be memory. ... visuospatial functions (impairment in visual perception and constructional ...
www.nationalmssociety.org/Sourcebook-Cognitive.asp

Significant cognitive improvement during atypical antipsychotic ... the domains of executive function, attention, memory, language, and perception in a ...
www.nature.com/npp/journal/v28/n8/full/1300216a.html

The battery included tests of general intelligence, executive function, attention, verbal memory, visual memory, motor skills, and visual-spatial perception ...
ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/6/996

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Note added at 18 mins (2006-08-06 11:22:32 GMT)
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The Clinical Neuroscience Research Center
Cognitive impairment (dysfunction) - Changes in cognitive function (memory, concentration, perception etc) caused by trauma or disease. ...
www.psychmed.org.uk/glossary.htm

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Note added at 21 mins (2006-08-06 11:25:06 GMT)
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Certain antipsychotic drugs seem to affect dopamine activity suggesting that this ... cognitive functions such as memory, sensory perception and processing, ...
www.genetics.med.ed.ac.uk/blog/

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Rachel Fell
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Local time: 22:27

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Thank you so much, Rachel (and to everyone who has contributed). I know that French doctors tend to use this kind of terminology, but I don't always know the equivalent English usage.( I shall now have to ask another question about noetique, then)
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