CH 10a
Patient HM suffered from _________ amnesia and was unable to encode new information into episodic memory
What is anterograde
An area of the brain associated with learning and memory; damage can cause anterograde amnesia
What is hippocampus
What is the general definition of amnesia?
What is an abnormal mental state in which memory and learning are affected out of all proportion to other cognitive functions in an otherwise alert and responsive patient
What other names had PTSD had before being entered in the DSM
What is shell shock, soldier's heart
Clive Wearing had damage to which parts of the brain?
What is medial temporal lobes and prefrontal lobes
A cortical area of the brain in the temporal lobes associated with learning and memory; damage can cause anterograde amnesia
What is medial temporal lobes
What is psychogenic amnesia not due to
What is not due to identifiable brain disease
What percentage of people are thought to be affected by PTSD in the US
What is 8%
Which type of amnesia did Clive Wearing suffer from?
What is anterograde AND retrograde
A subcortical region of the brain associated with learning; damage can cause anterograde amnesia
What is mammillary bodies
What two types of psychogenic amnesia can there be
What is situation specific or global
What sort of people are less likely to get PTSD
What is people who usually experience little guilt, anger, alienation and other unpleasant emotions
An inability to from new memories following brain damage
What is anterograde amnesia
Specific impairment of encoding new information into both episodic and semantic memory while most other cognitive functions remain intact
What is amnesiac syndrome
What is situation specific psychogenic amnesia
What is a brief, discrete episode of memory loss related to a traumatic event/period
What are some types of psychogenic amnesia that are situation specific.
What is PTSD, amnesia for violent incidents, amnesia for crimes of passion and alcohol abuse/intoxication
Anterograde amnesiacs have no deficits in _______ memory
What is working
_________ memory is the result of the influence of processing on areas of the brain that are not directly involved in the episodic-memory circuits
What is implicit
When did PTSD enter into the DSM
What is 1980
What characterizes a more global memory deficit in psychogenic amnesia
What is loss of large parts of episodic memory and personal identity