PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Memory Consolidation
13 Aug 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Slide 3 old age and brain disorders. Steady course of cognitive deterioration that does not improve. Two types of dementia: slowly progressive and step wise: Slowly progressive: the deterioration is gradual, happens over a long period of time. There are no sudden drastic drops in capacity that happens over night. To be clinically diagnosed with dementia, it has to affect your social and occupational functioning (activities of daily living) Each form of dementia has its own unique neuropsychological signature. Slide 5 the canadian study of health & aging. Cognitive reserve hypothesis: the more connections you form in your brain (be it via education, or other ways to keep your brain in shape) then the greater your cognitive reserve is. This means that you"re much less likely to succumb to brain deteriorating diseases like dementia or alzheimers because you have a much stronger brain with many connections to lose.
