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| What are the areas of the brain involved in short term memory |
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| prefrontal cortex, Broca's and Wernicke's |
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| Linguistic and Visuospatial |
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short term memory
BOTH require rehearsal and manipulation |
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| This region brain helps with the shape of the object |
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| 2 types of Long term memory |
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Declarative- semantics/episodic
Procedural- skills, habits, etc |
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| loss of declarative memory |
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| normal aging memory loss occurs where only? |
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Lateral/medial mammilary nuclei
Ant. thalamic
cingulate
parahippocampal
entorhinal |
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| Besides olfactory, taste, where do the other sensory modalities go |
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| they pass through the entorhinal cortetx-->dentate-->subiculum |
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| This system mediates recollection |
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| system that mediates familiarity |
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| Where do the subcortical inputs originate? |
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Septal nuclei
hypothalamus
amygdala
monoaminergic centers |
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| This is necessary for memory consolidation |
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| This aneurysm can contribute to amnesia |
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| Hippocampus projects to fornix which splits into pre/post commisures. what do they do? |
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Pre- terminate in Septal and Striatum
Post- terminate in mammillary bodies |
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| What is another important aspect of hippocampus |
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| conversion of short to long by LTP via NMDA receptor |
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| This is a lobe prone to epileptic seizures |
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| Patient H.M. had a hippoc resection along w/a BL Medial Temporal lobectomy. |
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Severe anterograde amnesia
minor retrograde amnesia
spared IQ
VERY short attention span |
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| The anterolateral temporal lobe |
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storage or retrieval of autobiographical memories
can acquire new memories, but can't remember biological past |
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| Korsakoff's patients have permanent anterograde amnesia. why? |
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| They show damage to mamm. bodies or DM nucleus |
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| Left medial temporal lesion |
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| diff retaining verbal material |
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| learning patterns, geometric figures, faces |
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working memory (manip. of info)
time tagging
source
retrieval strategies |
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| Fronto temporal amnesia can be characterized by |
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herpes
trauma- decr in ant/retro memory
IMPAIRED EPISODIC ONLY!! |
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