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  • Korsakoff syndrome
  • alcohol abuse
  • nystagmus and dysmetria
  • gait was mildly ataxic
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Oscar

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‘______ ______ is absolutely dynamic’

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Human memory

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are not statically ‘archived’ in neocortex but are subject to constant chance by various influences

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Memories

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different memories have different _____ ______

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time courses

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  • outlasts STM but not permanent
  • what you ate yesterday
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Intermediate-term

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is the process of storing new information

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Learning

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ability to store information

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memory (a process)

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specific information stored in a brain

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memory (a content)

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Remembering your first day in school (about you)

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Episodic

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Knowing the capital of France (about something random)

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Semantic

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Knowing how to ride a bicycle (showing how to do it)

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Skill learning

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  • surgery removed amygdala, hippocampus, and temporal cortex on both sides
  • profound anterograde amnesia
  • short term memory normal
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Henry Molaison (Patient H.M.)

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H.M.’s memory deficit was severe, but only on _____ _____

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verbal tasks

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  • radar tech
  • was stabbed through his right nostril, then leftward into his brain
  • damage to mediodorsal thalamus, mammillary bodies
  • normal short term memory but cannot form long term declarative memory
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Patient N.A.

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Patient N.A. had damage to the ________ _________ and _______ _________

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mediodorsal thalamus, mammillary bodies

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  • amnesia caused by a lack of thiamine
  • especially in chronic alcoholics (Oscar)
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Korsakoff syndrome

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  • rode his motorcycle off an exit ramp
  • was comatose with dilated fixed pupils
  • had a bilateral hippocampal injury
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Patient K.C.

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Patient K.C.’s diagnosis

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bilateral hippocampal injury

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  • can acquire new semantic memories
  • ex: layout of his house
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K.C.’s semantic knowledge is spared

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  • no personal details can be recalled
  • ex: severe injury at families cottage that caused surgery and crutches for over 6 months
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K.C.’s episodic memory is obliterated

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  • not importance of information
  • helps memory
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emotional arousal

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  • person experiences their first kiss
  • body is strongly aroused
  • context is obvious
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Initial experience

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Seperate nodes for emotions, sounds, smells, colors, tactile and other sensations

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Memory is stored un network

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  • unwanted recall of fearful stimuli creates a fee-forward loop
  • each recall causes emotional reaction that reinforces that memory
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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  • increases serotonin and oxytocin
  • inhibits the amygdala
  • now approved for PTSD treatment
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Ecstasy

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words and pictures are linked in our ______

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brain (in the corpus colosseum)

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27
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________ is not location of long-term memory

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Hippocampus

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  • of memory involves hippocampus
  • takes time to occur
  • vulnerable
  • changed upon recall/restorage
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Consolidation

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after learning enhances memory processing in hippocampus

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sleep

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sleep induces _______ _______ between hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)

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information transfer

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This transfer _____ ______, so new memories become stable

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consolidates memories

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_______ is changed upon recall/restorage

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Memory (eye-witness testimony)

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33
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  • ‘it hit’ vs ‘it smashed’
  • higher speed when ‘smashed’ vs ‘hit’
  • broken glass seen when ‘smashed’
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Elizabeth Loftus (car accident)

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  • encoding episodic memories
  • retrieving episodic memories
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Hippocampal memory system

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  • sensorimotor skills
  • perceptual skills
  • cognitive skills
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skill learning

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mirror tracing

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sensorimotor skills

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learning to read mirror-reversed text

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perceptual skills

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planning and problem solving

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cognitive skills

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  • new declarative memories
  • temporal/spatial memory
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hippocampus

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  • memories that involve emotions
  • PTSD, fear
41
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  • source memory
  • ‘memory for context in which something was learned’
  • remembering how you learned something
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prefrontal cortex

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Older people show impaired internally generated memory, but respond well to ______ _____

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external cues

43
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_______ and _______ memories remain stable

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autobiographical, semantic

44
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  • spreads through the brain
  • cerebral cortex shrinks as neurons die
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Alzheimer dementia (disease)

45
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  • loss of recent memory
  • faulty judgment
  • personality changes
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mild alzheimer progression

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  • verbal and physical aggression
  • agitation
  • wandering
  • sleep disturbances
  • delusions
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moderate alzheimer progression

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  • loss of all reasoning
  • bedridden
  • incontinence
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severe alzheimer progression

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extracellular accumulation of beta-A4 amyloid

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intracellular accumulation of tau

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neurofibrillary tangles

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protein ___ stabilizes microtubules

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In AD, tau changes so microtubules ______

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tau proteins _____ to form neurofibrillary tangles

53
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______ converts tau from a normal to a toxic state

54
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amyloid and tau _____ ___ in brains of Alzheimer patients

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AmyloidB is produced from amyloid precursor protein in membrane of neurons

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Build up part 1

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in synapses between neurons, amyloidB clumps (plaques)

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Build up part 2

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amyloidB clumps outside and in blood vessels active microglial cells to release inflammatory chemicals

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Build up part 4

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misfiled tau aggregates into neurofibrillary tangles inside neurons

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Build up part 5

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misfiled tau passes through synapses to other neurons, where it triggers further misfolding of tau

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Build up part 6

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process repeats and the disease spreads from neuron to neuron

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Build up part 7

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  • forgetting where you left things
  • having troubling remembering what you just read
  • walking into a room and forgetting why you entered
  • not being able to retrieve information
  • blocking (calling someone by a different name)
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Normal forgetfulness

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mechanisms of memory stage

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change in synapses

63
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first proposed that memory is stored as an anatomical change in the strength of neural connections

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Ramón y Cajal (1894)

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a synapse is ______ if it can change the strength with which it affects its target

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________ changes at synapses store memory

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anatomical

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  • presynaptic, postsynaptic, or both
  • increased neurotransmitter release, or effectiveness of receptors
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anatomical changes at synapses store memory

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inputs from other neurons _____ or _____ neurotransmitter release

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increase, decrease

68
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  • if presynaptic axon & postsynaptic neuron are active at the same time-synapse is strengthened
  • if presynaptic axon is active but postsynaptic neuron is inactive- synapse is weakened
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Don Hebb’s hypothesis

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Rats raised in enriched condition (Manhattan) had

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  • behavioral benefits
  • cerebral changes
70
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  • promoted better learning and problem solving
  • aided recovery from conditions such as malnutrition
  • protected against age-related decline in memory
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Behavioral benefits

71
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What happens to neuron structure to produce a memory?

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Dendritic spines changing

72
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LTP

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Long - term potentiation

73
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Synapses in LTP are like

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Hebb synapses

74
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Tetanus drives repeated firing

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Synapses in LTP #1

75
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Postsynaptic targets fire repeatedly due to stimulation

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Synapses in LTP #2

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Synapses get stronger

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Synapses in LTP #3

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AMPA and NMDA receptors in LTP in _______

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hippocampus

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glutamate first activates AMPA receptors

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #1

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NMDA receptors do not respond until enough AMPA receptors are simulated to partly depolarize neuron

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #2

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NMDA receptors at rest have a magnesium ion block their calcium channels

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #3

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after partial depolarization Mg++ is removed & NMDA receptors allows Ca++ to enter in response to glutamate

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #4

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the large Ca++ influx activates protein kinases
- enzymes that phosphorylate (activate) many things

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #5

83
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Now there are 2 AMPA receptors in membrane, which unblock more NMDA receptors

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Receptors in LTP in Hippocampus #6

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AMPA up regulation is _____-______

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short-lived

85
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CREB binds to DNA promoter regions

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neurochemical cascade during induction of LTP #7

86
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CREB changes the transcription rate of genes

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neurochemical cascade during induction of LTP #8

87
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these genes produce proteins to change ______ ______ and contribute to LTP

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synapse structure

88
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other proteins block CREB’s ability to affect gene transcription

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long-term potentiation

89
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they compete with CREB for binding sites and thereby _____ formation of long-term memories

90
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  • increasing postsynaptic receptors
  • increasing transmitter release
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LTP increases effectiveness of synapses by

91
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in normal aging, hippocampal atrophy reflects change in its volume, but not loss of _______, may be a loss of dendritic branches, decreased cell size, or loss of glial cells

92
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loss of dendritic branches

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arborization

93
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neurons die in

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Alzheimer dementia

94
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  • cause hippocampal atrophy
  • to allow better response to transient stress
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reduces cortisol

95
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expression in hippocampus, which prevents hippocampal degeneration

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prompts nerve growth factor

96
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cushions loss of synapses in aging

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enlarges neural networks

97
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  • reduces cortisol
  • prompts nerve growth factor
  • enlarges neural networks
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enriched early experience

98
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living in active environments and involvement in cognitive activities reduces cognitive decline

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late enriched experience helps too

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