Exam 17: Learning and Memory

It has been proposed that PTSD can be reduced or eliminated by administering drugs to

Comparative studies suggest that the inability to retrieve memories of events, as experienced by patient K.C., is probably due to damage to the

Summarize the anatomical and functional bases of declarative memory.

Write a coherent and informative paragraph incorporating each of the following terms or concepts: engram; consolidation; anterograde amnesia; LTM; STM.

A major site of damage in Korsakoff's syndrome is the

Describe the circuit underlying synaptic plasticity in Aplysia.

LTP that is induced through the training of an animal in a memory task is called _______ LTP.

The perforant pathway projects from the entorhinal cortex to the

Reconsolidation

Describe the eye-blink conditioning paradigm and its neural substrate.

A change in the processing of a stimulus based on prior exposure to the same or similar stimuli is referred to as _______.

Describe two forms of priming, and discuss experimental evidence concerning the brain structures that are important for these types of learning.

Outline the molecular mechanisms involved in the induction of long-term potentiation, and evaluate the proposition that LTP is a mechanism of memory formation.

Three forms of nonassociative learning are

Identify three protein kinases that are found in neurons, summarize research evidence that relates them directly to memory processes, and identify one process that has unusually long-lasting activity.

An alcoholic has memory problems, but an fMRI shows no damage to the medial temporal lobes. When asked if the patient remembers hitting his head, he says that it happened when he was on a shuttle mission to Jupiter. This person probably has damage in the

Synaptic plasticity can be demonstrated in relatively simple organisms like Aplysia. Short-term habituation of the gill-withdrawal reflex to repeated stimulation of the siphon has been connected with a(n)

The mirror-tracing task is classified as a sensorimotor skill, whereas learning to read mirror-reversed text is an example of a(n) _______ skill.

Entorhinal neurons that fire selectively when an animal crosses the intersection points of an abstract map of the local environment are _______ cells.

Which drug treatment has been proposed as a means of preventing the development of posttraumatic stress disorder?