Anterograde Amnesia Flashcards
What is anterograde amnesia?
A deficit in acquisition of events and facts post-morbidly.
Anterograde amnesia is the loss of ability to _________ after ________.
Create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
Regarding anterograde amnesia, an event causing amnesia leads to a _______ or _______ loss to _________.
Partial or complete loss to recall the recent past.
Regarding anterograde amnesia, what memories from before the event remain intact?
Long-term memories.
Anterograde amnesia is the _________ to ________.
Inability to retain new information.
What are some causes of anterograde amnesia?
Tumors, epileptic seizures, viral infections, stroke, traumatic head injury and acute psychological stress.
What drugs could cause amnesic effects?
Diazepam.
What part of the brain being damaged could create amnesia?
The hippocampus.
What viral infection could produce amnesia?
Viral encephalitis.
What is viral encephalitis?
Inflammation of brain tissue.
Give an example of a patient with viral encephalitis.
Clive Wearing - the man with the 30 second memory - had Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: herpes on the brain causing neurodegeneration.
How does alcohol create amnesic affects?
Rapid rises in blood alcohol concentration over a short period of time severely impairs or completely blocks the brains ability to transfer short term memories during intoxication to long term memory for storage and retrieval.
Who found that “Rapid rises in blood alcohol concentration over a short period of time severely impairs or completely blocks the brains ability to transfer short term memories during intoxication to long term memory for storage and retrieval.”?
White
In what year did White find that “Rapid rises in blood alcohol concentration over a short period of time severely impairs or completely blocks the brains ability to transfer short term memories during intoxication to long term memory for storage and retrieval.”?
2011
What year was Patient HM born and what was his health problem?
Born in 1926 and had severe epileptic seizures possible due to a head injury in childhood. His seizures did not respond to anti-epileptic drugs.
What did a Doctor suggest for Patient HM when his seizures did not respond to anti-epileptic drugs?
A new neurosurgical treatment.
In what year did Patient HM have bilateral temporal lobectomy? And what is that surgery?
1953, Removal of both temporal lobes.
What was noted about Patient HM after the removal of his temporal lobes?
Could no longer recognize hospital staff, couldn’t find his way to the bathroom, would eat lunch but not remember even eating a half hour later and would read the same magazines over and over without finding the contents familiar.
Who was Patient EP?
A retired IT expert who had viral encephalitis that damaged parts of his brain associated with memory.
What did Patient EP state during testing?
6 stack high computers in his day when amazed by laptop. Couldn’t remember drawing a picture not long before, kept re-introducing himself to the experimenter.
Who was Patient CW?
Clive Wearing. A professional musician with Herpes Simplex Encephalitis that damaged parts of the brain associated with memory. “Man with the 30 second memory” YouTube documentary.
What did Tulving say about episodic memory in 1993?
Episodic memory allows us to be consciously aware of an earlier experience in a certain situation at a certain time.
Who said “Episodic memory allows us to be consciously aware of an earlier experience in a certain situation at a certain time” and in what year?
Tulving in 1993.
What did Gabrieli et al say in 1999 say about semantic memory?
Long term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience.
