BIO SCI 38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Retrograde Amnesia, Herpesviral Encephalitis, Explicit Memory
2 Sep 2016
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There are collection of structures that hippocampus sits on: need to damage all of them to induce different amnesia. Can answer thinking questions, draw complex drawings, read. Not aware of retelling stories 4-6 times. Still slightly aware of meeting people before, but cannot place exactly where. Holy shit can"t remember stuff 15 minutes ago. Explicit memory refers to intentional or conscious recollection of prior experiences, as assessed in the laboratory by traditional tests of recognition or recall schacter. Measuring declarative memory in humans with recall and recognition. Amnesiac patients show a temporal gradient to retrograde amnesia. Amnesic patients have impaired memory for events in the news until about 15 years prior to their injury. Immediate (working) memory is intact in severe amnesia. Hm was able to remember 584 for several minutes: how, has some elaborate description to attain the number.
