Memory loss

Amnesia in general refers to a deficit in memory and it is divided into anterograde amnesia or retrograde amnesia depending on whether the deficit is for information that was acquired before or after the onset of the deficit. Most of the times this condition occurs in relative isolation (Rosenbaum, Murphy, & Rich, 2012, p. 47) and other cognitive domains including reasoning abilities, attention, remote memory and skill acquisition or procedural memory generally remain preserved (Duff, Wszalek,…

Memories are an individual’s stored experiences from certain moments in his or her past. Memories carry feelings based on the experience such as nostalgia when thinking about a past lover or anger when thinking about a moment of betrayal, but these remembered feelings and saved perceptions of the situation do not always match the physical impact of the event. Children are especially susceptible to this as innocence softens the severity of situations. In the excerpt from her story “Cherry…

impact of Alzheimers’ disease in adults in the United Kingdom and how should medicines be used to reduce that economic impact? Dementia is an umbrella term of common syndrome where it is usually describes as brain deteriorating problem which affect memory and predominance during elderly age. In record of Alzheimer’s society (reference), one third of people who are over 65 years old will develop dementia which shows the commonness of the condition in UK. Dementia can be divided into varies…

In this article, the authors tested five individuals who were categorized as fluent dysphasia with severe anomia (Hodges, Patterson, Oxbury, & Funnell, 1992). It explains that semantic memory is important for comprehension and it outlines the percentage of the long term memory. This kind of memory assists with picture-picture matching and item naming. The researchers recognized that all five individuals’ vocabularies decreased dramatically since their conditions first occurred. The individuals…

Simon and Music: A memory game with music involved Alex Kenney Mika Shepherd Lia Vonderahe John Castillo Santa Rosa Junior College Abstract We have seen that music can play a crucial role in recall of information. We are going to conduct an experiment that involves participants that will be in the presence or absence of music while playing the game Simon, a simple game testing short term memory. We will have the participants play the game in three different musical settings…

Flint Memory The effects of Alzheimer’s on memory is something I have seen for myself. When I was in middle school we had my grandma move in with us due to the difficulties of Alzheimer’s. We were able to be there for her and help her more than my grandpa was able to do. So I know how this disease can slowly change someone over time. My grandma used to have all sorts of foods that she would make, storing the recipes all in her head. Lots of our favorite dishes were lost as her memory…

with the results from two meta-analysis studies investigated memory function in OSA compared to age-matched norms, showing that OSA most frequently affects verbal episodic memory compared to other cognitive domains, in particular, verbal delayed recall (effect sizes d= 0.44-0.52).[11, 52] These data suggests that OSA predominantly affects memory retrieval process and that encoding process may not be the primary resource of episodic memory impairment in…

In the past year, my family has observed on many occasion abnormal forgetting the first hand from my mother, who is dealing with memory loss issues. Even though, she has cooked enormous amount of meals over the years for her family, she is no longer able to prepare the simplest recipe. In a two bathroom house where she has resided for over forty years, she can’t remember where to find…

For instance, the endowment effect is considered a manifestation of loss that causes aversion due to the loss of a possession, which is greater than the pleasure of acquiring that possession (Feng et al., 2013). Furthermore, studies have found that objects acquired in this context can have different memory traces and might have an effect on recognition memory (Feng et al., 2013). In fact, how those objects are encoded in the memory might differ from those stranger to that person (Feng et al.,…

retrograde or anterograde amnesia. It appears that john is most likely subject to anterograde amnesia as he shows signs of losing his ability to form declarative memories. “Anterograde amnesia is the inability to recall events that occur after the onset of amnesia.” (Peter Harris, 2014). (pg. 105). “Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for events occurring before a particular time in a person’s life, usually before the event that precipitated the amnesia.” (Peter Harris, 2014). (pg.…