PSYC 169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gyrus, Roman Numerals, Confabulation

• School: UCSD
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 169
• Professor: Vilayanur Ramachandran

Document Summary

Amnesia, retrograde amnesia: when u can no longer recall memories from the past, quite common - car accident, earlier memories come back first. Less vulnerable to trauma, been around for so long: anterograde amnesia: korsakoff"s syndrome - hypoxia. Inability to create new memories: alcoholic korsakoff"s psychosis, thiamine deficiency: destroys hippocampus. Caused by chronic alcoholism: give them thiamine to save some of hippocampus. Still rambiling even tho blood alcohol level is fine: wernicke"s encephalopathy - wks - korsakoff"s is alcoholic presenttion of. Short term memory intact, but incapable of acquiring new memories: confabulation: play down amnesia. Try to create coherence from their scattered memories: general memory model, short term memory/walking memory, temporary, capacity of 7+/- 2, rehearsal transfers items into long term memory, long term memory, permanent. No, old memories still intact: memories seem to be there, and some intrusion pen salesman, words but impossible to retrieve, memories acquired in wake, but can"t be recalled upon except when sleeping.