PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Oliver Sacks, Blood Sugar, Parietal Lobe
11 Apr 2013
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Head start vs. getting ahead: brain food and cognition, maze training younger mice perform better then older mice. Glucose reaching brain was less in old mice. Same think in humans performance in memory tasks equated to initial blood glucose level. The case of the imposter syndrome real life case cacara illusion. David was in coma for 5 weeks, things seem to be fine he can carry out conservation, memory seems intact. You observe that when meeting his parents, he is distant/on edge . He believes that those people look like his parents but they are not his parents he feels like those people are wearing a mask and acting like his parent. Lot of possible explanations: memories are intact but obviously some type of emotional disturbance, differences in interacting with his parent if he hears his parents first he will recognize them but if he sees them first he.
