6.5.2 Learning and Memory Flashcards

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What is declarative memory?

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Declarative memory - explicit

Conscious

Perceptual v. executive

Episodic v. semanitc

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What is short term memory?

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The ability to take working memory and transfer it to long term memory

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What is non-declarative memory?

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Implicit

Unconscious

Motor memory

Striatum and cerebellum

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What is your diagnosis?

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What is your diagnosis?

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“Hollywood” Amnesia

Severe long-term memory deficits

Preserved short-term memory

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What are the different assessments would you do to determine working v. short term v. long term?

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What is your diagnosis?

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Short-term memory loss usually requires?

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Bilateral damage to the memory circuits

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What is long-term memory?

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Limbic circuits

Retention of information for hours to years

Relatively few errors until 25% or more of cortex has been damaged

Synaptic Remodeling: Long term potentiation, NMDA receptor

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What is your diagnosis?

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Korsakoff’s psychosis

THere is little or no acquistion of NEW information

Impaired retrieval of old, hisorical memory

Confabulation

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What is working memory?

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Attention: Located in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Retention of information for seconds to minutes

Necortical “reverberatiing circuit”

Directly related to intactness of cortical neurons and synapses

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What was that cool drawing that Dr. Gronseth made?

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What is anterograde amnesia?

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Failure to form NEW retrievable memory

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Make a flow chart comparin declarative and non-Declarative memory.

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You dont really need to! Maybe just get the basics? Who knows in this module

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What is the pathway for Papez circuits? (MUST KNOW)

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Describe the cognitive psychology multi-store model.

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What is Memory consolidation?

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Describe the evolution of a memory gap?

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Amnestic Syndromes tend to be?

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A condition causing global cognitive problem

Less commonly isolated event

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What is your diagnosis?

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What is benign forgetfulness?

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Forgetting things or difficulty with recall (non-pathologic)

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What is your diagnosis?

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Failure to retrieve formerly learned information

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Desribe the storage of the different types of memories. (Working, long-term, and short-term)

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