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korsakoff: Who, where, cause, effects

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alcoholics, damage to mamillary bodies, thiamine deficiency, memory deficits as well as confabulations

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declarative memory: what kind? acquisition via what structure? what other kind of memory is ther

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“what” (experiences, familiar objects, facts, events, etc). Hippocampus. nondeclarative (procedural, priming, associative, reflexes)

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input to and output from hippocampus

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parahippocampal gyrus and entorhinal cortex; fornix to mam bodies to ant thalamus to cingulate and back to parahippo

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what is the trisynaptic circuit within the hippo? final output?

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Entorhinal to dentate gyrus to CA3 to CA1 (final output)

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ppl with alzheimer usually lose ___ memory

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declarative

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what kind of impairments would you expect to see with right temporal lobectomy? left? what area do you see enlarged in taxi drivers

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visual memory; word memory; post hippo

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functions of amygdala

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emotional significance to objects, endocrine and autonomic activity (via relation to hypothalamus), fear conditioning

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Lesion in man with intact declarative memory but impaired conditioning

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bilateral amygdala damage

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lesion in man with intact conditioning but impaired declarative memory

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bilateral hippocampal damage