PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vladimir Bekhterev, Thiamine, Thalamus
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Ebbinghaus early 1900s founded a lot of concepts about diff types of memories that you could observe in humans. Lecture 9 memory: but a lot of their ideas were forgotten, patient revolutionized how they thought about memory. To describe the temporal gradient commonly observed in retrograde amnesia. Impairment in the formation of memory: but, they had good memory for things prior to when alcohol started to take over their lives. Third ventricle: below main structure of corpus callosum (highlighted in orange in slide) Dorsal medial nucleus also affected: also experienced loss in brain weight. Vladimir bekhterev affected their medial temporal lobes: 1900 first reported medial temporal lobe softening in an amnesic, 1954: william sconeville reported memory loss in 2 patients that he performed surgery on to treat severe epileptic seizures. What happened to h. m. was as a young child, he fell off of his head was he fell off his bike and consequently experienced epileptic seizures.
