Amnesia
To have severe deficits in their episodic memory.
What is Amnesia?
Is the loss memory BEFORE damage.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
Is the loss of memory AFTER damage.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
True or False: Amnesia only affects short-term memory.
What is False?
True or False: An individual with retrograde amnesia can remember how to play chess but might not recall ever learning how to play it.
What is True?
True or False: Individuals with anterograde amnesia can remember new events but struggle to recall old ones.
What is False?
Two forms of Amnesia.
What is Retrograde Amnesia and Anterograde Amnesia?
This type of memory, which includes general world knowledge can be spared in retrograde amnesia.
What is Semantic Memory?
This famous research study that involved a patient who developed severe anterograde amnesia after undergoing brain surgery to treat epilepsy.
What is H.M.?
The most common source that amnesia can occur.
What is Brain damage?
Researchers from 2014 that studied the memory abilities of a patient with Retrograde Amnesia who suffered with brain damage caused by encephalitis.
What is Gregory, McCloskey, and Landau?
Individuals with Anterograde Amnesia have a hard time imagining events that will occur in the future. Why?
What is the information you need about previous events to figure out what you might do in the future?
Name some symptoms that can cause Amnesia.
What is trauma to the head, stroke, and neurological disease?
Provide an example of a situation that might lead someone to have Retrograde Amnesia.
What is a person involved in a car accident who is unable to recall events leading up to the crash?
Damage to this part of the brain is commonly associated with Anterograde Amnesia.
What is Hippocampus?