Alzheimer's and Aphantasia

Question 1

Alzheimer’s

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Answer 1

• neurodegenerative disorder characterised by gradual widespread degeneration of brain neurons
• gradually causes decline in memory, cognitive and social functioning and personality changes

Question 2

Psychological Effects of Alzheimer’s

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Answer 2

• initially damages hippocampus and later affects neocortex
• primarily explicit memory, implicit memory is less affected
• difficulty in episodic future thinking and retrieval of ABM
• short-term memory affected initially and then long-term memory

Question 3

Biological Effects of Alzheimer’s

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Answer 3

• amyloid plaques between neurons disrupting neurotransmission
• neurofibrillary tangles within neurons killing nerve cells
• brain imaging and post-mortem lesion studies used to research Alzheimer’s

Question 4

Aphantasia

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Answer 4

• inability to voluntarily generate mental imagery
• difficulty in episodic future thinking and recalling episodic memory
• visual cortex is affected