W22-L8: Memory Disturbances

Question 1

What is short term or immediate memory?

Answer 1

Working memory and seconds

Question 2

What is long term memory?

Answer 2

Storing information over minutes, hours, years for later

retrieval

Question 3

What are the two main memory systems and what makes up each?

Answer 3

Declarative: Episodic and semantic

Non-declarative: Skills and priming

Question 4

What is important about episodic memory?

Answer 4

Most likely to break down clinically

Question 5

Damage to which 3 structures can cause memory impairment?

Answer 5

Hippocampus, entorhinal and perirhinal cortex

Question 6

What is hippocampal sclerosis and what does it present as?

Answer 6

Cell loss in hippocampus with gliois

Presents with declarative memory disturbance

Question 7

What is transient global amnesia?

Answer 7

Striking anterograde amnesia with no disruption to self identity

Question 8

What is the major risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease?

Answer 8

Age

Question 9

What is mild cognitive impairment?

Answer 9

Subclinical transitional phase between normal aging and

dementia

Question 10

What is the criteria for mild cognitive impairment?

Answer 10

• Self-reported memory complaint
• Objective memory impairment
• Unaffected general cognitive functioning
• Normal capacity to perform activities of daily living