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Memory and Amnesia
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- 1amnesiaa severe loss or deterioration of memory
- 2anterograde amnesiaunable to store any new memories
- 3retrograde amnesiacan't remember many events b/t 1 and 3 years before memory loss happened
- 4Clive Wearing30 second memory
- 5H.M.hippocampus was removed causing severe memory loss
- 6Frontal lobe damage result from:What kind of damage is caused?
- stroke
-head trauma
-Korsokoff Syndrome (dementia brought by alcohol) - 7confabulationwild guessing mixed in w/correct info in an effort to hide memory gaps
- 8Alzheimer's Diseasea gradual build-up of harmful proteins and deteriorating brain cells
-eventually fatal
-arousal & attention impaired - 9infantile or childhood amnesiathe scarcity of early memory
-nonverbal
-hippocampus not fully developed
-no sense of "self" to age 3-4
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- Flashcards on Memory and Amnesia, created by ajq267 on 27/10/2014.
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