Memory Disorders

Question 1

subject memory complaints predicts what?

Answer 1

predate formal deficits in some dementia

Question 2

Case of HM was?

Answer 2

bilateral mediall temporal lobe resection = no long term memory creation, amnesia, but intact procedural and working memory

Question 3

Immediate memory is?

Answer 3

short=term, keeping info like digits in our heads and manipulate if need be

Question 4

long term memory is?

Answer 4

storing information over minutes/hours/years

Question 5

what is non-declarative memory?

Answer 5

skills/habits

priming/classical conditioning

Question 6

what is 2 kinds of declarative memory?

Answer 6

episodic: events
semantic: facts (banana is yellow)

Question 7

semantic memory contextual?

Answer 7

Nope

Question 8

3 important brain areas for declarative memory? damage does what?

Answer 8

1. Hippocampus
   2.entorhinal cortex
2. perirhinal cortex
   damage to any of the three causes memory deficits

Question 9

Right hippocampus better for?

Answer 9

non verbal memory: faces, visuospatial associations

Question 10

left hippocampus better for?

Answer 10

verbal: list learning/story recall

Question 11

4 big causes of memory impairment?

Answer 11

1. degenerative disorders
2. cerebrovascular disorders
3. paroxysmal/transient (eg. trauma)
4. surgical resection

Question 12

what happens to hippocampus in temporal lobe epilepsy? histologically and clinically?

Answer 12

hippocampal sclerosis (CA1)
declarative memory deficit

Question 13

what happens if you remove mammillary bodies?

Answer 13

dense amnesia

Question 14

what is transient global amnesia?

Answer 14

anterograde amnesia from some precipitating event, unknown cause

Question 15

3 kinds of transient memory disorders?

Answer 15

1. transient global
2. transient epileptic
3. post-traumatic

Question 16

what’t eh most common dementia?

Answer 16

Alzheimer’s ~50%

Question 17

what is first signs of Alzheimers

Answer 17

mild cognitive impairment

Question 18

mild cognitive impairment is what 4 things?

Answer 18

1. self reported complaint, hx 6-12mo
2. objective memory impairement
3. general cog is good
4. normal ADLs

Question 19

Alzheimers Braak and Braak stag V-VI affects?

Answer 19

neocortex

Question 20

Alzheimers Braak and Braak stage I-II affects?

Answer 20

transentorhinal

Question 21

Alzheimers Braak and Braak stage III-IV affects?

Answer 21

limbic system

Question 22

what are two early memory compalints in MCI?

Answer 22

1. name-face association

2. object -place association

Question 23

dysnomia is?

Answer 23

fluent empty language

Question 24

alzheimer’s affects not just memory but?

Answer 24

language too