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Explicit Memory and the Hippocampus Flashcards

1
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What is the Neuropsychological Approach?

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Finding people with brain damage
Assess behavior
Infer function of particular brain structures based on deficits

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What is Amnesia?

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memory loss due to damage or degeneration

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What is Retrograde Amnesia?

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Loss of memory acquired before injury
Retro(old cannot remember cool old memories)

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What is Anterograde Amnesia?

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Inability to acquire new memories after injury

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What causes Korsakoff’s Syndrome?

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Lack of vitamin B1 due to chronic heavy alcohol abuse

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What does B1 do in the body?

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use it for detoxification of EtOH
Needed for glucose metabolism in the brain

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What does Korsakoff’s Syndrome produce?

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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy

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What is Wernicke’s Encephalopathy?

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Retrograde Amnesia, Lack of awareness of illness, confabulation(false memories), Flat affect, No EtOH craving

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How far back does the retrograde amnesia go?

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5-15 years

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What are the major structures that are damaged in Korsakoff’s Syndrome?

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Dorsomedial Thalamus, Medial Hypothalamus, Neocortex

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What is Wernicke’s Encephalopathy?

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Retrograde Amnesia, Lack of awareness of the illness, confabulation(false memories), Flat affect, No EtOH craving

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What are the specific areas of the brain that are effected by KS?

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Mammillary bodies, the frontal cortex, enlarged ventricles

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Who was N.A

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A young marine, who had a fencing foil stabbed into his nose

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What are N.A symptoms

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Mild Retrograde: 1 year
Dense Anterograde: no new explicit memory
Aware of amnesia

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What memory does the mirror-tracing task use?

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implicit memory: ability to physically remember the task

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Can NA remember preforming the mirror-tracing task?

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No

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What structures were damaged in NA

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Dorsomedial thalamus
Mammillary bodies

18
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Who was B.J?

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Snooker cue up the nose

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What were B.J symptoms?

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Anterograde amnesia

20
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What structures were damaged in NA?

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Mammillary bodies

21
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What are the colloid cyst patients?

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Pts who have benin tumors on their ventricles

22
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How was the results measured in the colloid cyst pts?

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Extent of mammillary body damage
loss of explicit memory

23
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What were the results of the colloid cyst studies?

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large MB more memory
Small MB less memory

24
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Who was H.M?

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uncontrolled epilepsy, surgery was done and removed bilateral, medial temporal lobes

25
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What was removed in HM?

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Hippocampus, Entorhinal, perirhinal cortex, amygdala

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What were HM symptoms?

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Mild retrograde
Dense anterograde: explicit memory
Aware of amnesia

27
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Who was RB?

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Cardiac bypass surgery mishap, hypoxia

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Where was the damage of RB?

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CA1

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RB symptoms?

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Anterograde amnesia: declarative memory

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What is explicit/declarative memory?

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Conscious memories that can be put into words

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What is implicit/nondeclarative memory?

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Unconscious memories that cant be put into words

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What is the Papez circuit?

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it is the way that the hippocampus is connected to other structures

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What is episodic memory?

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explicit recollection of past events

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What is semantic memory?

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General knowledge of facts and concepts

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What is perceptual representation system?

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identification of words, objects based on form, structure

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What is procedural memory?

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Knowing how to do something

37
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What is working memory?

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holding info online in service of comprehension

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What areas are involved in episodic memory?

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Diencephalic circuitry(hippocampus, mammillary bodies, etc)

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What areas are involved in semantic memory?

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Diencephalic circuitry

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What areas are involved in perceptual representation system?

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Temporo-occipital areas, extrastriate cortex

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What areas are involved in procedural memory?

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Cortico-striatal circuitry: habit learning
Cerebellum: motor learning

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What areas are involved in working memory?

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prefrontal cortex and some cortical bits

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