Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders

Ya Wang; Jun-Yan Ye; Simon S Y Lui; Raymond C K Chan

doi:10.1002/pchj.634

Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders

Psych J. 2023 Aug;12(4):543-546. doi: 10.1002/pchj.634. Epub 2023 Feb 22.

Authors

Ya Wang^{1

2}, Jun-Yan Ye^{1

2}, Simon S Y Lui³, Raymond C K Chan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.
² Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China.

PMID: 36814086
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.634

Abstract

Mental time travel (MTT) refers to the ability to mentally re-experience the past and pre-experience the future. Here we briefly review impairments in MTT, its underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms, and ways to improve MTT in psychiatric patients. Future research directions on MTT are discussed.

Keywords: episodic future thinking; mental time travel; over-general autobiographic memory.

MeSH terms

Humans
Imagination
Memory, Episodic*
Mental Disorders*
Time

Abstract

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