Amnesia

Question 1

What is Amnesia and what are the potential causes ?

Answer 1

condition that significantly affects a persons ability to recall stored memory or form new memories
- brain injury / illness
- drugs such as those given to treat Parkinson’s disease

Question 2

What is anterograde amnesia ?

Answer 2

unable, or have problems forming new memories because information is unable to pass from short term to long term memory - caused by damage to hippocampus ( Vital in formation of new memories )

Question 3

Role of Frontal lobe
What is retrograde amnesia ?

Answer 3

Responsible for processing short term memories through encoding . Central role in retrieval of memory.

Where people cannot recall existing memory from their long term memory store

Question 4

What does research suggest and what is the evidence used to prove this

Answer 4

relationship between frontal lobe damage and retrograde amnesia in Alzheimer’s patients .

Remote memory tests were performed on participants with frontal lobe damage and the results were significant = positive correlation with retrograde amnesia ( Mayes )

Question 5

Role of cerebellum in procedural memory ( motor skills )

Answer 5

Procedural memory is our memory for how to do things and is stored in long term memory.

Responsible for learning movements ( damage to cerebellum may cause us to stop learning new skills or improving on old ones) and procedural memory