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Problems w/Memory
Brain Areas
LTP
Language
100
The inability to either remember memories or form new ones
What is amnesia?
100
Site where Long Term Potentiation occurs
What is hippocampus?
100
LTP stands for this
What is Long term potentiation?
100
Area where speech is produced
What is Broca's area?
200
HM retained this type of memory, which allowed him to recall tasks and learn procedures
What is procedural memory?
200
HM had this area removed, and lost the ability to form new new memories
What is medial temporal lobe?
200
LTP occurs where?
What is hippocampus
200
Area where speech is comprehended
What is Wernicke's Area
300
this is the reason HM could remember his childhood
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
This brain area modulates our decision making process and how things are stored as memories
What is prefrontal cortex?
300
This glutamate receptor is responsible for a lot of what happens during LTP
What is NMDA?
300
Damage to the brain causes language disorders named...
What is aphasia
400
When you can form and remember new memories, but forget your old ones.
What is retrograde amnesia?
400
Where are memories stored?
What is "all over the brain?"
400
This is the purpose of LTP
What is increasing synaptic strength
400
Speech is dominant on which side of the brain?
What is left side?
500
Forgetting someone's name is a failure to establish what kind of memory?
What is declarative memory?
500
damage to Wernicke's area can cause what kind of disorder?
What is Wernicke's aphasia?