PSYC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Internal Carotid Artery, Etomidate, Temporal Lobe
15 Jun 2016
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She is impressed with memory because memory is something we take for granted when everything works well, and yet if we have an understanding of structure-function relationships, we can appreciate what people who have memory issues struggle with. Can get a feel of what might be wrong with the patients by understanding these concepts. The damage to the medial temporal region must be bilateral to elicit global amnesia: hm had severe problems. This is her problem goes to university and cannot learn because she can"t remember how to get to the classes she needs to get to. She lives in a small university town. Someone pulls up in a car and say i"ll give you a lift". If you take away one temporal system, won"t get the same problems as if you take away the hippocampus etc. on the other side of the brain. Damage to one of the temporal system results in specific deficits, not global memory problem.
