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

Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders

Ya Wang  1   2 , Jun-Yan Ye  1   2 , Simon S Y Lui  3 , Raymond C K Chan  1   2
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Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders

Ya Wang et al. Psych J. 2023 Aug.

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.

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