Chapter 11 Flashcards
What can produce long term potentiation?
Electrical stimulation, behavioral conditioning, drugs
Long term potentiation is most prominently involved with…
Learning and memory
Where is long term potentiation studied?
Where the NMDA glutamate receptors are most prominent
The three part process of long term potentiation
Introduction (learning), maintenance (memory), expression (recall)
Implicit memory
Unconscious memory in which physiological responses are elicited even if explicit recognition doesn’t happen
Declarative is to nondeclarative as…
Explicit is to implicit
Retrograde amnesia
Not being able to remember past experiences
Anterograde amnesia
Being unable to create new memories
Short term memory
A brief, limited capacity memory store in which information must pass before reaching long term store
Long term memory
Final, permanent, memory storage area
Semantic memory
Memory for general information
Episodic memory
Memory for events
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Memory disorder resulting from alcohol abuse or thiamine deficiency. Symptoms include sensory and motor problems, confusion, personality changes, and lesions on the medial diencephalon
Alzheimer’s disease
Progressive memory loss resulting from degeneration of the basal forebrain and decreased acetylcholine.
Four parts of the brain where memories are stored
Hippocampus, medial temporal cortex, mediodorsal nucleus, and basal forebrain.
