w7 - Clinical Neuroscience #2b

Question 1

What are some symptoms of depression-related dementia?

Answer 1

• slowed information processing
• Poor sustained attention / focus on depressive themes
• *Impaired working memory *

Question 2

Symtoms of memory impairment in depression.

Answer 2

Anterograde
- Impaired coding or learning of new informations (poor attention)
- Impaired delayed recall / retreiving information (frontal lobe dysfunction)
Retrograde
- Can eperience temporal confusion (when things happen)

Question 3

How does memory impairment in depression differ to impairment in DAT ?

Answer 3

Recognition memory is relatively intact

Question 4

What is Psychogenic Amnesia ?

Answer 4

Memory loss due to an instigating event, that does not result in damage to brain strutures

Question 5

What is Psychogenic Fugue

Answer 5

Complete loss of autobiographical memories usually in response to an emotionally traumatic event

Question 6

Which memories are lost during a Psychogenic Fugue?

Answer 6

Complete loss of:
- Episodic retrograde memory
- Personal autobiographical semantic memory

Can recall :
- Non-personal semantic memories
- Proceedual
- Antrograde memories