02213caa a2200217 4500 210629s9999 xx 000 0 und d 2320-5407 Reuben Thomas Varghese EPISODIC MEMORY DEFICITS: COMPARISON BETWEEN PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA OF ALZHEIMERS TYPE, MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT & HEALTHY ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS. 2018 Prof. in Speech Pathology, Department of Speech ? Language Pathology All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysuru, India Scientist B, Department of Speech- Language Sciences All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysuru, India. 300-306 Volume 6 Issue 9 Episodic memory refers to the ability for recollecting an autobiographical memory of events that has occurred at a particular time and place. However, there is a dearth of episodic memory studies in Persons with Dementia of Alzheimer?s type (DAT), Mild-Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Healthy controls (HC). The aim of the present study was to compare episodic memory deficits across all the three groups. A total of sixty participants were recruited for the present study. These participants were categorized under three subgroups, twenty HC, twenty persons with MCI and twenty persons with Mild DAT. The participant groups were again sub divided into three age-groups [(>60-65yrs, >65-70 yrs & >70-75 yrs)]. Episodic memory tasks were evaluated by using Orientation and recent memory test from the memory domain of Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment Protocol (CLAP, Kamath, 2001) to the participants. The results of the study revealed that persons with DAT exhibited more episodic memory deficits compared to MCI and HC suggesting cognitive impairments and word retrieval deficits. The present study throws light on cognitive markers which can help in the differential diagnosis among the three groups. Further research with more number of samples is warranted. Episodic memory, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia of Alzheimer?s type. Goswami, S.P International Journal of Advanced Research http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/7675 FJAS FJAS 17840 17840