PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation
8 Nov 2014
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Children reporting sexual abuse: real or imagines, poor memory of birth to 3 years because hippocampus incompletely developed and language poor, repressed memory from trauma, connie kristiansen (carleton) says it happens between 3. 9% to 13. 6% of cases. Biology of memory: biochemistry, alterations in synaptic transmission, hormones modulate neurotransmitter systems, neural circuitry, localized neural circuits, long term potentiation (certain of the neural circuits are kind of super charged), sell well exercised, they almost becomes a fixture of brain circuitry, anatomy, anterograde and retrograde amnesia, hippocampus, retrograde amnesia: forget info before event, anterograde amnesia: unable to retain info after event or learn new material, example of retrograde amnesia, john o"donnell: 45 year old white male, ran grocery store with wife, 2 children, store burned down without insurance, depressed(cid:224)started drinking(cid:224)stopped(cid:224)mother died(cid:224)started drinking again(cid:224)wife and children left him, found in woods near home, disoriented, malnourished, korsakoff"s syndrome, retrograde amnesia, example of anterograde amnesia, hm run over at 9 years, resulting severe epilepsy.
