PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Temporal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Span
1 Aug 2013
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Head injury (even in fairly mild cases) Cerebral vascular incident (e. g. , stroke, aneurism [cell loss and or increase in brain pressure, not just memory impairments]) Epileptic activity (mike in video, temporal lobe also a common focal point for epilepsy) Neurosurgery (h. m. became amnesic because of surgery for seizures) Tumors (just like blood, increase in pressure and death of cells) Chronic alcohol abuse (korsakoff"s syndrome, vitamin b) Alzheimer"s disease (most prominent symptom of ad) Retrograde amnesia (ra): difficulty in remembering events that occurred before the onset of amnesia: losing one"s past. Most likely reason for young people to have amnesia. Recovery with time (in many cases, especially ability to create new memories: there will still be period in which they could not commit memories to ltm (when still regaining abilities) Can commit pictures from events missed to ltm. Permanent loss of memory for events preceding injury (ra) and for events occurring during time of aa.
