Lecture 13 Flashcards
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What is declarative memory?
recite and recall something that you have previously experienced
procedural memory?
learning how to do something
echoic memory?
Put together words, phrases, sentences
What is retrograde amnesia?
inability to recall events that occurred prior to trauma
What is anterograde amnesia?
inability to remember events that occur after trauma
Where are memories stored?
Cerebral cortex and limbic system
What is Korsakoff’s psychosis?
predominate in alcoholics, includes retrograde and anterograde amnesia, apathy, decreased spontaneity, patients make up plausible stories of what they’ve been doing
What parts of the brain degenerate with korsakoff’s psychosis
dorsal median nuclei of the thalamus and mammillary bodies
What is transient global amnesia?
sudden but transient reterograde and anterograde amnesia, lasts for a few hours and then patient recovers
What is herpes simplex encephalitis
anterograde amnesia, some reterograde amnesia, confusion, and dementia
What is agnosias?
inability to recognize certain things, how to do motor movements, etc
What is alzheimers?
memory loss, inability to remember more distant events, starting to forget trivial things and then progressing to common. Patient becomes bedridden with quadrapelgia
What does the brain of an alzheimers patient look like?
atrophy of the cerebral cortex and limbic structures, senile plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles
What is semantic memory?
Memory of facts
What is episodic memory?
memory of different events
What role does the hippocampus play in memory?
storage of memories, not where they are necessarily stored
cerebral cortex?
where memories are “stored”
thalamus and mammillary bodies?
retrival of memories
Amygdala?
which events are important to store
What is classical conditioning?
unconditioned stimulus with unconditioned response
What is operant conditioning?
subject required to make/do something, if correct receives reward
