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Epileptic seizures?

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Sudden excitation in groups of neurons with a loss of inhibitory potential

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Who is HM?

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He had severe temporal lobe epilepsy

Underwent bilateral medial surgery

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What is released in excitatory synapse?

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Glutamate

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What is released in a inhibitory synapse?

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GABA

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What is temporal lobe epilepsy?

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Recurrent unprovoked seizures from medial or lateral temporal lobes

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What are the 2 types of temporal epilepsy?

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Simple- feel a change but no loss of awareness

Complex- loss of awareness

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Hippocampal sclerosis?

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Neuron cell death, increase in goal cells
Occurs early in life
Past infections, tumours

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Declarative memory is?

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Conscious access to information learned previously

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What does HM tell us about memory?

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Temporal lobes are essential
Especially for anterograde memories
And that there is a difference between declarative and procedural memories

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What is the hippocampus’ role?

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Learning and consolidating novel information

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Consolidation theory?

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After consolidation info can be retrieved without hippocampus involvement

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Multiple trace theory?

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Always involves hippocampus system ( for episodic)