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cause of dementia

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neurological disorder, caused by progressive cell death

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hallmarks of dementia

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memory loss and effects on language functioning

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define aphasia

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language impairments

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define apraxia

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motor memory impairments

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define agnosia

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sensory memory impairments

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what is needed to diagnose dementia

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  • memory impairment
  • one of the a’s (aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, abstract thinking impairments)
  • impairment in social behaviour
  • not explainable by another disorder
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cause of degenerative dementias

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genetic

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cause of non degenerative dementias

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a heterogeneous group of disorders with diverse origin

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example of cortical dementia

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Alzheimer’s

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example of subcortical dementia

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Parkinson’s

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cause of Parkinson’s

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dopaminergic cell loss

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examples of memory impairments

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  • difficulty learning new info
  • info retrieval deficits
  • personal episodic memory impairment
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13
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which memory is more commonly impaired

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declarative rather than procedural

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what are language deficits

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  • list generation deficits
  • word-finding difficulties
  • verbal fluency deficits
  • less complex sentence structure
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what are visual recognition impairments

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trouble recognizing familiar faces

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what are spatial deficits

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getting lost in familiar surroundings

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in Alzheimer’s, which brain area shows clearest evidence for cell loss

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The entorhinal cortex (link between neocortex and hippocampus)

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what are other affected areas in Alzheimer’s

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limbic cortex, inferior temporal cortex, and posterior parietal cortex

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which areas are spared in Alzheimer’s

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primary sensory and motor areas

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what are the 2 main categories of LTM

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  • implicit (non-declarative)
  • explicit (declarative)
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what is implicit memory

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Ability to recall a movement sequence or how to
perform some act or behavior

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what is explicit memory

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Ability to recall what one knows, to detail the time,
place, and circumstances of events

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2 types of explicit memory

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semantic and episodic

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3 types of implicit memory

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procedural, priming, conditioning

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what is procedural memory

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Skills, how to perform certain action

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how does procedural learning occur

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slowly, and gradually

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what is priming

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Processing a stimulus is influenced by prior encounter with the same or a related stimulus- occurs rapidly

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how are explicit vs implicit memories encoded differently

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  • Implicit information is processed in a “bottom-
    up” or data-driven manner
    – Information is encoded in the same way it was
    perceived
  • Explicit information is processed in a “top-down”
    or conceptually-driven manner
    – The subject is able to reorganise the information
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in what kind of learning does the person have a passive task

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implicit tasks

30
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what kind of memory is learned unintentionally

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implicit

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how is explicit memory retrieved

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conscious recollection of prior experience

32
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how is implicit memory retrieved

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result of the test depends on previous experience, but not on awareness that memory is being used

33
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what is amnesia

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term for loss of memory

34
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what is anterograde amnesia

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forgets everything new after few minutes

35
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what does the medial temporal region include

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  • Hippocampus
  • Amygdala
  • Entorhinal cortex
  • Parahippocampal cortex
  • Perirhinal cortex
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which are the prime structures for explicit memory

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  • medial temporal region
  • frontal cortex
  • reciprocal connections between frontal and temporal regions
37
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what is double dissociation

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only one of implicit or explicit memory are impaired

38
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which brain areas are involved in implicit memory

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– Basal Ganglia
– Ventral Thalamus
– Substantia Nigra
– Premotor Cortex

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what is semantic memory

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Semantic memory is a person’s knowledge about the world

40
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what is episodic memory

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recollection of where and when events happened in one’s own life

41
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what is double dissociation

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when someone loses their episodic memory but not their semantic memory

42
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why do we separate episodic and semantic memory

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  • Theoretically different
  • Double dissociation
43
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what is consolidation

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Consolidation is a process lasting for several hours which fixes information in LTM

44
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when are memory traces most vulnerable

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shortly after learning

45
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what are the 2 stages of consolidation according to cognitive neuroscience

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  1. temporary storage in hippocampus (necessary to create memory trace, but not sufficient for consolidated
    memories)
  2. then transfer to cortex, involvement of distributed
    involvement of several areas
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what is a bilingual

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individual who has the mental representation (knowledge) of more than one language

47
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what is a native bilingual

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those that have two native languages

48
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what are the 2 ways cross-language competition in speech planning is resolved

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  1. Bilinguals develop skill in selectively attending to the critical information that signals language status
  2. Bilinguals learn to inhibit irrelevant information once it has been activated
49
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what development does experience in managing 2 languages promote

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control over attention and inhibition

50
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what can bilingualism delay

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the onset of dementia

51
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what are the neural differences in bilinguals during conflict monitoring

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bilinguals activated a lesser portion of the anterior cingulate cortex

52
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what are semantic networks

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Network of unitary nodes (no internal
structure) and labelled links between them

53
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what is Broca’s aphasia

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– Comprehension is relatively preserved
– Deficits in producing language

54
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what is Wernicke’s aphasia

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– Comprehension generally impaired
– Produce fluent but meaningless
speech

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