Cognition: Perception & Memory (14) EXAM 4 Flashcards

1
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The integration and interpretation of sensation into meaningful information

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Perception

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2
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T or F, for a deficit in perception, basic sensation must not be in tact?

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FALSE, basic sensation must be intact

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3
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Are most perceptual deficits associated with the right or left hemisphere?

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Right hemisphere

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Agnosia

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Inability to recognize or make sense of incoming information despite intact sensory capabilities

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Inability to recognize or make sense of incoming information despite intact sensory capabilities

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Agnosia

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Tactile Agnosia / Astereognosis

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Inability to recognize objects by touch and manipulation alone

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If someone has tactile agnosia/astereognosis, they have a lesion in:

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R Parietal-temporal-occipital association area (PTO)

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Inability to recognize objects by touch and manipulation alone

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Tactile Agnosia / Astereognosis

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Visual Object Agnosia

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Inability to visually recognize objects despite having intact vision (and no intellectual impairment)

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Inability to visually recognize objects despite having intact vision (and no intellectual impairment)

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Visual Object Agnosia

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What agnosia involves someone having the ability to describe the shape and size of object, but not be able to identify the objects visually?

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Visual Object Agnosia

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12
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If someone has visual object agnosia, where is the lesion?

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Right PTO (Parietal temporal occipital association area

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Visual Object Agnosia

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Inability to visually recognize objects despite having intact vision (and no intellectual impairment)

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14
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Auditory Agnosia

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Can hear sounds but not recognize them

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15
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Can hear sounds but not recognize them?

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Auditory Agnosia

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Auditory Agnosia: R Lesion

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Interferes w interpretation of environmental sounds

ex: hear and describe doorbell but not recognize what it is

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17
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Auditory Agnosia is a lesion where?

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R PTO

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18
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Auditory Agnosia: L lesion

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Unable to understand speech (Wernicke’s Area)

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19
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What is the only type of agnosia that is caused by a lesion of the L PTO?

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Alexia

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20
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Alexia:

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Inability to comprehend written language

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21
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Inability to comprehend written language:

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Alexia

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22
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Anosognosia:

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Lack of awareness or denial of severity of paralysis; lack of insight
(someone thinks they can climb ladder or clap and they can’t)

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Lack of awareness or denial of severity of paralysis; lack of insight

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Anosognosia

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24
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Lesion where causes Anosognosia?

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R PTO

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Prosopagnosia

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Inability to recognize familiar faces (can correctly interpret emotional facial expressions and visually recognize other items in the environment)

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Inability to recognize familiar faces (can correctly interpret emotional facial expressions and visually recognize other items in the environment)

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Prosopagnosia

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27
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Lesion where causes Prosopagnosia?

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R PTO

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28
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Unilateral Neglect:

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Failure to respond or orient to stimuli presented contralateral to brain lesion

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29
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Failure to respond or orient to stimuli presented contralateral to brain lesion

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Unilateral neglect

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30
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What is the tendency to behave as if one side of the body and/or one side of space does not exist?

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Unilateral Neglect

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31
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Other names for unilateral neglect?

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Hemi-inattention, hemi-spatial neglect, left-neglect

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Unilateral neglect is due to a lesion where? (Hemisphere and specific area)

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Right hemisphere, R PTO area

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33
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Unilateral neglect usually occurs with what other deficit?

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Visual field deficit

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34
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The ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eye

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Visual perception

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35
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The ability to perceive or otherwise react to the size, distance, or depth aspects of the environment

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Spatial perception

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36
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Schema’s comprehend spatial relationships; there are schemas for:

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The body (mental representation of how body is arranged)
The body in relation to its surroundings
The external world
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37
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Visuoperceptual abilities

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Form discrimination

Figure ground discrimination

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38
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Visuospatial Abilities

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Spatial relations

Topographical orientation

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39
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Body schema

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Body schema awareness
Right/left discrimination
Finger agnosia

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40
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Form Discrimination

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The ability to perceive differences among objects and positional aspects of objects

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41
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If a child is having problems distinguishing between similar geometric shapes such as a square, rectangle and diamond, letters such as m and n or words such as hose, horse and house they have what?

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Problem with form discrimination

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42
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Figure ground

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The ability to differentiate foreground and background forms or objects

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43
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The ability to differentiate foreground and background forms or objects

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Figure ground

44
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The ability to perceive differences among objects and positional aspects of objects

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Form Discrimination

45
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Two types of visuoperceptual abilities:

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  1. Form discrimination

2. Figure ground

46
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Two types of visuospatial abilities:

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  1. Spatial relations

2. Topographical orientation

47
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Spatial relations

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Relating objects to each other or self

48
Q

Determine the location of objects and settings and route to the location

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Topographical orientation

49
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If you have impaired recall and can’t find your way to a very familiar place you might have:

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Topographic disorientation

50
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Finger agnosia

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Impaired ability to identify the fingers of one’s own and/or those of another person

51
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Adult-Onset Apraxia

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Impairment of the capacity to perform purposeful movement in the absence of paralysis or paresis

52
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Impairment of the capacity to perform purposeful movement in the absence of paralysis or paresis

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Adult-Onset Apraxia

53
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Adult-Onset Apraxia is due to damage in what area?

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Frontal Lobe - Left premotor and supplementary motor area

54
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Constructional Apraxia

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Interferes with the ability to comprehend the relationship of parts to the whole

55
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Interferes with the ability to comprehend the relationship of parts to the whole

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Constructional Apraxia

56
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Inability to draw and arrange objects correctly in space

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Constructional apraxia

57
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Constructional apraxia is due to damage where?

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Right PTO

58
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Dressing Apraxia

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Inability to dress oneself

59
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Inability to dress oneself

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Dressing apraxia

60
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Types of Limb Apraxia (3):

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  1. Ideomotor
  2. Ideational
  3. Conceptual
61
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Inability to carry out a motor command (such as touch nose)

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Ideomotor (part of limb apraxia)

62
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Inability to create a plan for a specific movement, difficulty sequencing (put toothpaste on toothbrush and put away)

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Ideational (part of limb apraxia)

63
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Difficulty using tools

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Conceptual (part of limb apraxia)

64
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In general, Apraxia’s are on the ____ and Agnosia’s are on the _____

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Apraxia on L (except construction)

Agnosia on R (except Alexia)

65
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What is perception stored that can be brought forward?

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Memory

66
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For something to become a memory it must beL

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Registered/encoded
Stored
Consolidated
Retrieved

67
Q

Which type of memory maintains goal-relevant information for a short time?

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Working memory

68
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Which type of memory is discrete information, depends on conscious reflection and cognitive processes, and requires attention during recall?

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Declarative (Explicit)

69
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Types of declarative memory:

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Semantic

Episodic

70
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What type of memory deals with facts independent of context? (part of which category)

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Semantic

Part of declarative (explicit)

71
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What type of memory deals with info specific to context? (part of which category?)

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Episodic

Part of declarative (explicit)

72
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Which type of memory involves the recall of skills and habits (motor memory)? (like getting on a bike and riding it after having not done it in a long time)

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Procedural (implicit)

73
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Which type of memory is visual, auditory memory and lasts 1-2 seconds?

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Immediate memory

74
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Which type of memory is a brief storage of stimuli that has been registered and perceived?

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Short-term memory

75
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Which type of memory is lost after a few minutes unless material is continuously rehearsed?

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Short-term memory

76
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Which type of memory can hold about 7 (+ or -) 2 chunks of information?

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Short-term memory

77
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Which type of memory is relatively permanent storage of info processed in ST memory?

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Long-term memory

78
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Which type of memory involves consolidation: conversion of STM to LTM?

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Long-term memory

79
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Which type of memory holds a large capacity?

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Long-term memory

80
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Amnesia

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Loss of semantic and episodic declarative memory (not procedural memory though)

81
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Loss of semantic and episodic declarative memory

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Amnesia

82
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Retrograde amnesia:

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Loss of memory before the precipitating trauma

83
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Loss of memory before the precipitating trauma

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Retrograde amnesia

84
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Anterograde amnesia:

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Loss of memory of events occurring after the injury

85
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Loss of memory of events occurring after the injury

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Anterograde amnesia

86
Q

Which disorder is caused by deficiency in Thiamine (Vitamin B1)?

A

Korsakov’s syndrome

87
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Which disorder causes damage to medial thalamus and mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus?

A

Korsakov’s syndrome

88
Q

What type of disorder is seen in chronic alcoholism and severe malnutrition?

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Korsakov’s syndrome

89
Q

Korsakov’s syndrome causes damage to what anatomical structures?

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Medial thalamus and mammillary bodies of hypothalamus

90
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Symptoms of Korsakov’s syndrome:

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Anterograde amnesia

Confabulation

91
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Confabulation

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Creation of false memories (not delusion or lying)

92
Q

What disorder is age-related progressive, irreversible and a brain disorder consisting of memory loss, confusion and disorientation?

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Alzheimer’s Disease

93
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When do Alzheimer’s symptoms usually begin?

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After 65, with risk increasing with age

94
Q

T or F: Alzheimer’s is a normal part of aging?

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FALSE, it it NOT a normal part of aging

95
Q

T or F: Alzheimer’s can only be late-onset?

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FALSE, Alzheimer’s can be late or early-onset!

96
Q

T or F: There is no specific test to confirm an AD diagnosis?

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True

97
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Course of Alzheimer’s Disease (steps of degeneration):

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Signs of forgetfulness –> Inability to recall words –> failure to produce and comprehend language–> get lost easily –> neglect to dress, groom or feed themselves

98
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Course of Alzheimer’s:

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Motion blindness: inability to interpret the flow of visual information (wander and become lost)

99
Q

Uncontrollable emotional outbursts occurs when in the course of Alzheimer’s?

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Toward the end of progression

100
Q

Tau (a protein) does what in a normal neuron?

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Forms part of the microtubule support/transport system

101
Q

In Alzheimer’s, what happens to Tau?

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It is abnormal and twists into tangles (not pinning down filaments in transport system)

102
Q

What does the tau dysfunction cause to happen in Alzheimer’s?

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Loss of transport system–> neurons cannot function typically and eventually die off

103
Q

Neuritic (Beta-Amyloid) Plaques:

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Extracellular deposits of amyloid builds up between neurons

104
Q

What does a healthy brain do with the Neuritic plaques?

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Breaks them down and eliminates them

105
Q

What happens to a person with Alzheimer’s in regard to Neuritic plaques:

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Fragments accumulate, forming hard, insoluble plaques and interfering with communication (triggers an immune response)

106
Q

What does the loss of connections between neurons responsible for learning and memory cause to happen in a person with Alzheimer’s?

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  1. Cortical atrophy (shrinkage) due to cell death

2. Degeneration of: cerebral cortex, amygdala, hippocampus

107
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Why are there enlarged ventricles in Alzheimer’s?

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Due to cortical atrophy