PSYCO275 Lecture Notes - Thiamine, Ethology, Heritability
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Using multiple approaches to address a single question. It was found that jimmie g. was a chronic alcoholic. Once you realize that a chronic alcoholic has developed korsakoff"s syndrome, the very first thing you should advise is that the patient stop drinking. Depending on the severity of the syndrome or the amnesia, if alcohol consumption stops, it is possible for the amnesia to get slightly better. Also seen in malnourished persons who had little or no alcohol. Alcohol accelerates development of brain damage in thiamine-deficient rats. Korsakoff"s is the result of thiamine deficiency, but damage is accelerated by alcohol. Efferent copies of movements can allow the brain to say whether it is movement within the body or of a body part that causes something to move or whether it is the object itself that it moving. Generally accepted that it is a combination of both. Heritability estimates try to estimate how much of the phenomenon can be attributed to genetics.