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In epilepsy, are neurons firing synchronously or dysynchronously?

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synchronously

that’s what causes the seizure

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What causes epileptic seizures?

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Sudden excitation in group of neurons with loss of inhibitory potential

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What happens at excitatory synapses?

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If glutamate is released into synapse, makes it more likely next neuron will fire

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Is epilepsy caused by increase in glutamate or reduction in GABA?

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reduction in GABA

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What has informed us more than anything else about memory function?

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TLE

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What is TLE?

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recurrent unprovoked seizures originating from medial or lateral temporal lobe

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What does medial, lateral mean?

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Middle, outside

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What is difference between simple or complex seizure?

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simple = auras
complex = loss of consciousness
All TLE’s start simple

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What is sclerosis?

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deterioration of cells or cell death

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What else causes TLE?

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past infections, tumours, vascular malformation

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Is TLE usually bilateral or unilateral?

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unilateral

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What was resected in HMs surgery?

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Amygdala, hippocampi, part of parahippocampal gyri

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Impairment for memories created prior to injury

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What is anterograde amnesia?

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Can’t learn new things

Can’t recall experiences / information learnt after injury

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What is declarative memory?

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Ability to consciously access information

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What was HM’s ability re declarative and procedural memory?

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Declarative: very bad
Procedural: fine

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How is procedural memory developed?

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repetitive practice

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What do left MTL lesions result in?

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Verbal memory impairment

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What do right MTL lesions result in?

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Non-verbal / visual memory impairment

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Does TLE lead to memory impairment?

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Yes

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What is verbal v non-verbal memory impairment?

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verbal = language based [written and spoken]
non-verbal = non-language based [visual]
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What is hippocampus proper?

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Ammon’s Horn [CA1 to CA3]

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What is hippocampal formation?

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dentate gyrus, CA1, CA3, subiculum

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Where does entorhinal cortex receive info from?

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parahippocampal and perirhinal cortices

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What does hippocampus do with different modes of memory?

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Puts them all together - can know what we saw, what we felt, what we touched

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What is consolidation theory of memory?

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After a period of consolidation, information can be retrieved independently of hippocampal information [Squire]

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What is multiple trace theory of memory?

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Retrieval of autobiographical / episodic experiences always involves hippocampal system [Moscovich]

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Which part of brain is particularly important for relational memory tasks? [eg name with face, meaning with a word]

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Hippocampal system

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How do we test relational memory?

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paired association task [between arbitrarily things]

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What are the three regions of the extra-temporal brain that are involved in memory?

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Papez’s circuit
frontal lobes
diencephalon

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What does Papez’s circuit include?

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mamillary bodies [hypothalamus]
fornix
ATN [thalamus]
cingulate gyrus
hippocampus
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What is process of Papez’s circuit

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hippocampus - fornix - mamillary bodies - ATN - cingulate cortex - hippocampus

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What do lesions to Papez’s circuit result in?

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Declarative memory impairment

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Which parts of papez’s circuit are most likely to be lesioned in declarative memory impairment?

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Hippocampal

ATN

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Where is spatial memory most likely formed?

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right hippocampal lesions

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What do the frontal lobes do?

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Motor programming [motor and premotor cortices - posterior FL]
Cognitive control processes [prefrontal cortex]

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What are cognitive control processes?

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problem solving, reasoning, planning, monitoring, self correction

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Where are strategies for memory encoding and retrieval developed and implemented?

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Frontal lobes

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Where are contextual details of memories stored?

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DLPF

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What is the diencephalon comprised of?

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Thalamus and hypothalamus

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Where are mamillary bodies?

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Component of hypothalamus

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What is dorsal medial nuclei of thalamus involved in?

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Deficits in selecting appropriate information to be retrieved

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What is intralaminar/midline nuclei of thalamus involved in?

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deficits in memory, memory retrieval

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What is ion released into cell in excitatory synapse?

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Sodium

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What is released in an inhibitory synapse?

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Potassium

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What does LTP cause?

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More receptors to be added to post synaptic cell

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What are the long term synaptic changes in LTP?

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Increased sensitivity of receptors to glutamate
Increased amount of glutamate released by pre-synaptic cell
Protein synthesis in post-synaptic dendrites

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Where is LTP most likely to occur?

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Hippocampus, entorhinal cortex

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What do postsynaptic receptors do?

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Detect the presence of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft

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What is the ‘docking’ of synaptic vesicles?

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When clusters of protein molecules attach to other protein molecules in presynaptic membrane

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What opens the calcium channels in presynaptic membrane?

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depolarisation of membrane by action potential

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What ions depolarise the post-synaptic cell?

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Sodium [most important], Calcium

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What ions hyperpolarise the postsynaptic cell?

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potassium

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what does depolarisation of postsynaptic cell cause?

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EPSP

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What does hyperpolarisation of postsynaptic cell cause?

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IPSP

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What does opening of chloride channels in postsynaptic cell do?

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neutralises EPSPs

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