Exam 12: Learning and Memory

Suppression of ___ rhythms in the ___ inhibits some forms of learning.

If a person came into your office with memory problems,what would you do to determine if he had Korsakoff's syndrome? Design several diagnostic tests that would verify the condition.What would be some treatments you would recommend?

The neurotransmitter most closely associated with long-term potentiation is:

A disorder with similarities to Alzheimer's disease is:

When a weak synapse and a strong synapse undergo excitatory stimulation concurrently ___ occurs.

The two generally recognized forms of Alzheimer's disease are:

Korsakoff's syndrome is caused by:

If damage to the hippocampus is limited to area CA1,then:

By the year 2050,it is estimated that there will be about ___ million people with Alzheimer's.

The symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome can be reduced or prevented by taking a thiamine supplement.

On postsynaptic neurons,LTP results in:

The delivery of a chemical inhibitor of protein kinase M zeta into the insula has been shown to eliminate a conditioned ___.

A potential new treatment to repair the brain damage resulting from Alzheimer's is to increase ___.

Damage to which area is most likely to produce anterograde amnesia?

___ is thought to act as a binary switch that changes the strength of a synapse.

Remembering how to get to class every day although you cannot state the room number or the name of the building is an example of:

Experimenters were able to replace lost acetylcholine-releasing neurons by:

Which of the following statements regarding LTP is most likely true?

Environmental causes seem to have:

Although atypical,cortical damage similar to that of H.M.often produces better memory for childhood events than for the events of yesterday.