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Biopsychology Chapter 12 The Biology of Learning and Memory Part 3
This deck covers key concepts from Chapter 12 of Biopsychology, focusing on the biology of learning and memory, including conditions like Korsakoff's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
The hippocampus is especially important for which kind of memory?
episodic
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Term
Definition
The hippocampus is especially important for which kind of memory?
episodic
What type of deficiency causes Korsakoff's syndrome?
thiamine
Most Korsakoff's victims have a loss or shrinkage of neurons throughout the brain, especially in the ____.
dorsomedial thalamus
A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff’s syndrome is ____.
confabulation
Damage to the ____ produces symptoms similar to Korsakoff's syndrome.
prefrontal cortex
What memory impairments are found in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome?
anterograde and retrograde amnesia
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
The hippocampus is especially important for which kind of memory? | episodic |
What type of deficiency causes Korsakoff's syndrome? | thiamine |
Most Korsakoff's victims have a loss or shrinkage of neurons throughout the brain, especially in the ____. | dorsomedial thalamus |
A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff’s syndrome is ____. | confabulation |
Damage to the ____ produces symptoms similar to Korsakoff's syndrome. | prefrontal cortex |
What memory impairments are found in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome? | anterograde and retrograde amnesia |
Individuals with Korsakoff's syndrome are similar to people with damage to the ____. | prefrontal cortex |
When prompted with cues, Korsakoff's victims can often produce words from lists they saw but claim to have never seen. This exemplifies what kind of memory? | implicit |
What memory task would a typical patient with Korsakoff's syndrome be able to do without difficulty? | an implicit memory task |
What is confabulation? | confusing a made-up answer as a memory of an actual experience |
Korsakoff's patients best remember a list of short sentences by ____. | reading and rereading them |
As with Korsakoff's patients, Alzheimer's patients have impairments in ____ memory, but are relatively unimpaired in ____ memory. | declarative; procedural |
Korsakoff's patients and Alzheimer's patients have better memory for ____. | skills than facts |
If people with Down syndrome live long enough, they almost invariably develop ___ | Alzheimer's disease |
In some cases of Alzheimer's disease that run in families, the cause of the disease appears to involve which gene(s)? | genes on several different chromosomes |
Alzheimer's leads to the accumulation of ____ in the brain. | amyloid deposits |
Structures formed from degenerating axons and dendrites are referred to as ____. | plaques |
The most likely cause of the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease is due to a ____. | increase in amyloid-β proteins |
Alzheimer's is associated with brain damage as a result of ____. | tangles and plaques in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus |
What is believed to be the likely cause of plaques? | amyloid deposits in the brain |
Most researchers now believe that the accumulation of amyloid and tau protein ____. | are partly the cause of Alzheimer's disease |
Structures formed from degenerating neuronal cell bodies are called ____. | tangles |
Amyloid is to ____ as tau is to ____. | plaques; tangles |
The most common treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is to give drugs that stimulate ____. | acetylcholine receptors |
A possible treatment for Alzheimer's is the administration of drugs that ____. | stimulate acetylcholine receptors |