Memory disorders

Introduction Development can be described as growth or change over time. Child development is a field that studies how biological predispositions, environment, and other factors affect children over the lifespan. A child 's development is often thought to begin at birth; however, while the child is still in the womb, there are months of development occurring. Parents are the primary influences over the life of a child and subsequently impact the child 's development. Moreover, events or…

The amount of work that happens in the brain when it starts processing information or learning something new is quite astounding. The brain knows what steps it needs to take and it moves through them so quickly that it seems like second nature. When moving through these thoughts the individual does not have to think about each step and then move to the second step. According to Anderson (2015) this process is called cognition. By definition it is when a person processes the knowledge they have…

school and it is hurting their education experience. Technology is mainly hurting students in education because it contains a lot of false information that can be difficult to check for accuracy, it makes plagiarism a large concern while hindering the memories of children and society. With all the information available on the internet, finding credible and factual information can be very…

1) In the hippocampus, activity-dependent synaptic plasticity (i.e. LTP) plays a crucial role in certain types of learning. Therefore, the physiological saturation of synaptic weights should disrupt the encoding of new memories. Researchers defined saturation of an intrinsic pathway as “a neural state in which no further potentiation is feasible, at least for a period of time, at any site in the pathway.” In this experiment, researchers were testing if saturation of hippocampal long-term…

recall information from memory. This method uses location and landmarks to be able to recall certain things. For example I use this when needing to remember where certain things are. I visualize a house and if I need to remember where my keys are, I remember everything that I may touch on my daily routine. So I imagine my house and each room and the locations that I normally reach for items I need before a reach my keys. 2) What is the difference between episodic and semantic memory? Give…

during the july 7th bombings? Can you be confident in your memories to stand up in a courtroom over 10 years later and demand that your memory is as clear and concise as it was when it was first created. In fact, many people who were not even present at these attacks still describe very clear memories of what they were doing when they found out about them. Why would somebody who was not directly affected by the event have such a clear memory of what they were doing and where they were at the…

However, the misery is still not over. Even if the term “chronic neurological disability” had been added under the draft bill of the Act4, the procedure of “labeling” a person with disability is still not consistent with the new definition of “disability”, especially when it comes to assessment of the mental capacity. Mental capacity is a multidimensional construct and a central determinant of an individual's ability to make autonomous decisions6. Mental capacity refers to the ability through…

Finding Dory, a film by Pixar Animation Studios is about a blue tang fish named Dory, where as a child, she got separated from her parents. She has short-term memory loss, so at first, when she got lost, she tries to look for her parents and asks other fishes for help but the fishes couldn’t help her because when they asked what are you looking for, Dory forgot what she is looking for. As time passed, she completely forgot about her parents. The only thing that she remembers is a song that goes…

Riley is 11 years old. According to Erikson’s psychosocial development stages, she is determining her industry vs. inferiority. Children in this stage typically learn independence, or in other words, how to do things on their own. Teachers begin to take an important role in the child’s life, since they teach the child specific skills. In the movie, Riley’s new teacher asks her to perform a task, more specifically, to stand up and talk about her life before she moved. Riley listens to her because…

The idea that synaptic modifications in the brain underlie learning and memory was first hypothesized by Donald Hebb in his pivotal work The Organization of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Theory (Hebb, 1949). Since then, the theory has gained strong support from various lines of research where the discovery of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) within the mammalian hippocampus present the strongest line of evidence (Howland and Wang, 2008). These phenomena have…