LE 3: Approach to a Patient with Memory Loss Flashcards
Language
Dominant cerebral hemisphere
perisylvian parts of frontal, temporal and parietal lobe
Memory
Diencephalon
inferomedial parts of temporal lobes
Reading and Calculation
Posterior part of the dominant cerberal hemisphere (posterior parietal lobe, angular gyrus)
Praxis
Dominant parietal lobe
Visuo-spatial orientation
Non-dominant parietal lobe
Behavior, stability of personality
Frontal lobe
an impaired ability to recall events and info that has been firmly established before the onset of the illness
Retrograde Amnesia
an impaired ability to acquire certain types of new information
Anterograde Amnesia
the database type of information
Declarative memory
aka episodic, semantic, primary or working memory
this includes classical conditioning and procedural memory
“how to use this and that”
Non-declarative memory
memory system for dating personal experiences and their temporal relationships
"contextual"
Declarative Memory:
Episodic
repository of perceptual and factual knowledge, which makes it possible to comprehend language and make inferences
"Generic"
Declarative memory:
Semantic
A module of memory that registers the results of a mental operation and holds it temporarily in order to manipulate it or use it to perform a subsequent operation
Declarative memory:
working memory
most commonly administered psychometric screening assessment of cognitive functioning, screen for dementia, estimate severity of cognitive impairment, determine response to tx
Folstein MMSE
