Psychiatric Disorders
What classifies a disorder?
Disturbance of thinking, mood, perception, and one that provides a clinically significant change in behavior and daily living.
What are Blue Zones? Give an example.
Places where there is a high population of older individuals. Example: Japan, USA, Italy, etc.
The transfer of perceptual memory into working memory.
What are the symptoms/behaviors of Alzheimer's Disease?
Cognitive impairments (remembering names), communication impairments (repeating things and fixations), emotional issues (apathy and depression), disorientation, and trouble with physicality (walking, swallowing, eating, etc.).
When was FNAF made?
2014
What are positive and negative symptoms?
Positive symptoms are the presence or exaggeration of an atypical behavior and negative symptoms are the absence of typical behaviors.
What is the Power 9? Name all.
Naturally physical activity, life purpose, mechanisms to destress, 80% rule, plant-based diet, 1-2 glasses of wine per day, faith-based community, live with extended families, and a healthy tribe.
What are the capacities and lengths for all memory stages?
What occurs in the brain during Alzheimer's Disease?
When is Jerma's birthday?
September 22, 1985.
Hyperactivity in what pathway underlies the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Mesolimbic
What are some symptoms/behaviors of natural aging?
What parts of H.M.'s brain was affected in surgery and what effects did that have on his memory?
The temporal lobe affected his long-term memory (partial retrograde amnesia) and the hippocampi affected his short-term memory (no new memories/anterograde amnesia).
What is long-term depression?
The "pruning" of synapses that are inactive to make room for synapses that are more useful to us.
What is Kenzie's cat's name?
Thomas
What do first generation anti-psychotics do/not do? Anow how are second generation anti-psychotics different?
First generation anti-psychotics reduce postive symptoms but don't reduce negative symptoms, but second generation anti-psychotics reduce both symptoms.
What are brain changes that take place in normal aging?
Cortical atrophy, functionality, CRUNCH Hypothesis, and HAROLD.
What happens when a memory goes back to the working memory from the long-term memory?
It becomes vulnerable because you could contaminate it.
What did the Morris Water Maze teach us?
What was my pig's name?
Samuel Benson III
What is being focused on to treat schizophrenia?
Glutamate Agonists -- more Glutamate equals more GABA equals less Dopamine.
Declarative memories are hippocampally dependent, they are episodic and include facts, information, and vocabulary. Non-declarative memories are dependent on the basal ganglia and cerebellum, they are procedural and include things like skill-learning.
Which parts of the brain were activated during word learning and word retrieval (two parts)?
What did the PET scan during word learning show?
Hippocampal activity occurs when learning words and other lobes are associated with retrieving words.
Jeremy Elbertson