5C: Imagined futures, Aphantasia, Alzheimer's disease

Question 1

Autobiographical
events 

Answer 1

personally
lived experiences

Question 2

Possible imagined
futures 

Answer 2

hypothetical
experiences and situations
that an individual has
the ability to create and
conceptualise in their mind

Question 3

Alzheimer’s disease 

Answer 3

a neurodegenerative
disease that involves
the progressive loss of
neurons in the brain and
is characterised by
memory decline

Question 4

Amyloid plaques 

Answer 4

fragments of the protein
beta-amyloid that
accumulate into insoluble
plaques that inhibit
communication
between neurons

Question 5

Neurofibrillary tangles 

Answer 5

an accumulation of the
protein tau that forms
insoluble tangles within
neurons, which then
inhibit the transportation
of essential substances
and eventually kill the
neuron entirely

Question 6

Aphantasia 

Answer 6

a phenomenon in which
individuals lack the
capacity to generate
mental imagery

Question 7

Mental imagery 

Answer 7

the visual representations
and experiences of
sensory information
without the presence of
sensory stimuli