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Describe the following types of memory, and class them as either declarative or non-declarative:
- episodic - semantic - procedural - working |
- declarative; based on personal experiences
- "; general store of conceptual and factual information that is not linked specifically to an experience (e.g., the color of a banana) - non-declarative - "; shortest duration, involves temporary retention |
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What is Ribot's law re: memory & injuries?
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states that memory of events nearest to the time o injury are the most vulnerable to loss.
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Define anterograde amnesia & retrograde amnesia
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respectively:
- the inability to remember new things - the inability to remember recently learned information |
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What is the most common clinical dz of semantic memory?
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Alzheimer's Diz.
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What are the three major prefrontal subdivisions?
- what are their functions re: behavior? |
orbitofrontal region, dorsolateral convexity, and the medial region
- biologic control of inhibition, emotions, and drive states - executive responsibitilies: formulating plans, attn, concentration, etc. - mainly connected to BG and involved in motor activity. |
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Lesions of the LEFT prefrontal area are likely to result in what? RIGHT?
Decreased BILATERAL prefrontal cortical activity is associated with what? |
depression
elevated mood Schizophrenia and OCD |
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What is the limbic system?
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Loose collection of structures (including the hippocampus and the amygdala) that modulates activity between the cerebral cortex and the hyptothalamus.
--> specifically important for control of emotion, behavior, drive, and memory. |
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Anatomically speaking, what are the components of the hippocampal formation of the limbic sys?
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hippocamus, dentate gyrus, subiculum
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After bilateral destruction of the anterior temporal lobes, including the amygdaloid complexes, which syndrome results?
- characterize this syndrome |
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
- docility, hyperorality, hypersexuality |
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Damage to the hippocampus results primarily in what?
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inability to convert recent memories into long-term memories (i.e., problems with memory storage)
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