Vocabulary
A condition that is caused by trauma to the brain.
Amnesia
Patients with the amnesic syndrome are usually aware that they have memory deficits. True or false
True
The most common form of amnesia
Alzheimer's disease
What causes psychogenic amnesia's?
Psychological disorders or psychological trauma
His memory deficits was largely restricted to the encoding of event. Complete anterograde amnesia
HM
Damage to what area of the brain can cause anterograde amnesia.
Hippocampus
What technique is used to help patients with amnesic syndrome to cope with their condition?
Method of vanishing cues
Rare but dangerous disease that causes massive swelling of the brain
Viral encephalitis
A loss of personal identity is occasionally seen in people with psychogenic amnesia. True or false
True
His case was associated with an earlier herpes infection that cause massive damage to the brain due to viral encephalitis
Clive Wearing
Some letters of a word is given to be able to figure out the word.
Word fragment completion
Damaged areas of the brain often associated with amnesic syndrome
Hippocampus, medial temporal lobes, mammillary bodies, and adjacent fornix.
Results of abnormal neuronal discharging which results in seizures
Epilepsy
Rather than neurologists and neuropsychologists who are the ones who typically study psychogenic amnesia's?
Psychiatrists
K. F. suffered from a selective impairment of short-term memory . What did he not experience?
anterograde nor retrograde amnesia
Consolidation
Symptoms of amnesic syndrome
Anterograde amnesia both episodic and semantic. Intact working memory, language and intelligence, and implicit memory. Damage to hippocampus and surrounding medial temporal lobe.
Korsakoff’s disease begins with what kind of deficiency which result in long tem chronic alcohol abuse.
Vitamin B1 (thiamine)
Another form of retrograde amnesia, with characteristics of forgetting one's name, date and place of birth, and occupation.
An experiment in which an amnesic individual is given a list of words to recall. Immediately following the presentation of the list, the amnesiac is asked to recall as many words as possible from the list.
Implicit Memory
A treatment that creates periods of retrograde amnesia.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Whhat is impaired in amnesic syndrome?
The encoding of new information
y deficits associated with damage to both the temporal lobes and to the frontal lobes and the resulting difficulty that the brain has in communicating internally
Korsakoff's disease
What can be defined as psychogenic retrograde amnesia for selective events.
Repression
What are the 3 strategies that Medved discovered when discussing memories in amnesiacs everyday lives?
Memory importation, memory appropriation, and memory compensation.